Andrei Kapitonovich Krasin (21.05.1911—28.03.1981) was a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1960). He was born in Tomsk. He graduated from Tomsk University (1934). In 1934-40 he worked at the Siberian Physico-Technical Institute and at the same time taught at Tomsk University, in 1945 he was at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and in 1946 — 61 deputy director and then director of the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (the town of Obninsk). In 1961 — 65 he headed the Division of Nuclear Power Engineering of the Power Engineering Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR, from 1965 he was director of the Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR, and from 1962 he was also professor at Byelorussian University.
His research concerned nuclear power engineering and nuclear technology. He took part in the creation of the world's first nuclear power station, the one at Obninsk (Lenin Prize, 1957). As scientific director he took part in the development of the mobile nuclear power station TES-3 and in the development of reactors with nuclear superheating of steam for the Beloyarsk nuclear power station. Under Krasin's direction the scientific and technical foundations were worked out for the use of fundamentally new coolants — dissociating gases — in nuclear power engineering, and a new line of research was opened: the use of nuclear radiation to carry out radiation-chemical processes and the radiation modification of materials.
The S. I. Vavilov Gold Medal (1974) [249].