Akayev, 50, will attempt the ascent of the nameless peak in the Altai range with a group of Russian scholars on July 28, the news agency said, quoting a presidential spokesman.
Sakharov, who died in 1989, worked as a nuclear physicist before his arrest by the Soviet authorities. He was exiled to the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novogord, where he was kept under house arrest until his release in 1987 by then-Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
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