Sergei Khrushchev

Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (, July 2, 1935 – June 18, 2020) was a Russian-American engineer. He was the son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. 

Khrushchev worked in many high-level engineering positions.  From 1968 to 1991, he worked at the Control Computer Institute in Moscow. 

From the years 1958 to 1968, Khrushchev worked as an engineer, then later as a deputy section head in charge of guidance systems for missile and space design. 

He was an advisor to the Cold War Museum. He was a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

In July 1999, he became a naturalized American citizen.

Khrushchev shot himself on June 18, 2020 at his Cranston, Rhode Island home at the age of 84.Ex-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s son dies in US

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