The Sakharov Museum is in the flat where dissident scientist Andrei Sakharov spent six years in exile. The Nobel laureate was held incommunicado until 1986 when a KGB officer came to install a telephone – when it rang, Mikhail Gorbachev was calling to inform Sakharov of his release. The phone is a highlight of the exhibition. To get there, take bus 1 from pl Minina i Pozharskogo or marshrutka 3 or 19 from pl Gorkogo to the Muzey Akademika Sakharova stop.
