Yevgeny Adamov | |
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Евгений Адамов | |
 Yevgeny Adamov (left) with President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Chelyabinsk Oblast on 31 March 2000. | |
| Adviser to the Prime Minister of Russia | |
| In office 2002–2004 | |
| Prime Minister | Mikhail Kasyanov Viktor Khristenko (acting) Mikhail Fradkov |
| Member of the Security Council of Russia | |
| In office 18 November 1998 – 27 May 2000 | |
| President | Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin |
| Minister for Atomic Energy of Russia | |
| In office 4 March 1998 – 28 March 2001 | |
| Prime Minister | Viktor Chernomyrdin Sergey Kiriyenko Yevgeny Primakov Sergei Stepashin Vladimir Putin Mikhail Kasyanov |
| Preceded by | Viktor Mikhaylov |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Rumyantsev |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 April 1939 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (until 1991) |
| Alma mater | Moscow Aviation Institute |
| Awards | Order of the Badge of Honour (1982) State Prize of the Russian Federation (2024) |
Yevgeny Olegovich Adamov (Russian: Евге́ний Оле́гович Ада́мов, born 28 April 1939) is a Soviet and Russian nuclear engineer and politician. He was the director of the N. A. Dollezhal Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering (NIKIET) from 1986 to 1998. He served as the Minister for Atomic Energy of Russia from 1998 to 2001, member of the Security Council of Russia from 1998 to 2000, and adviser to the Prime Minister of Russia from 2002 to 2004.
In 2008, he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for abuse of office and fraud, which was reduced to four years of probation on appeal.