[Vladimir Vladimirovich Sakharov--an outstanding disciple of N. K. Kol'tsov]

Vladimir Vladimirovich Sakharov would have celebrated his 95th birthday on the 28th of February, 1997. The scientific community celebrated this anniversary by conducting the XXVI Sakharov Lecture. Sacharov Lectures were established in 1969 by the order of the Presidium of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. The XXVI Sakharov Lecture was read at Kol'tsov Institute of Developmental Biology. The session was chaired by Professor N. G. Khrushchov, director of the institute, who has highlighted the achievements of Dr. Sakharov. Professor Komissarov from the Institute of Chemical Physics gave a lecture entitled "A Novel Concept of Photosynthesis and Prebiological Evolution.""