Grigory Klinishov

Grigory Yemelyanovich Klinishov (, 30 October 1930 – 17 June 2023) was a Soviet Russian physicist and recipient of the Lenin Prize. He was one of the creators of the Soviet hydrogen bomb RDS-37.

Scientific career Klinishov graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1954 and held the rank of the Candidate of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He was sent to the KB-11 (Constructor Bureau-11) of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building (later called All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics), a facility tasked with developing nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. There he worked as an engineer in a theoretical department under Andrei Sakharov. He left a death note where he bid farewell to his relatives.