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German Arsenyevich Goncharov [Russian: Гончаров Герман Арсеньевич] (8 July 1928 – 7 September 2009) was a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist, engineer and mathematician. He was a key member of the theoretical team which developed and tested Soviet thermonuclear weapons from 1952 and he led a theoretical department at the Soviet nuclear research facility at Arzamas-16 from 1967 to 2004.