ITAR-TASS
01 December, 1986
Nobel Peace Prize winner, nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov arrives at Jaroslavsky Railway Terminal in Moscow, where he is mobbed by the media. After seven years' exile in Gorky, during which his outside contacts were strictly controlled, Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow.
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