Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, died on June 18 in Cranston, the US, New York Times reported.

The political scientist was 84.

According to the AP, the medical examiner’s office claimed the cause was a gunshot a head injury wound. As the police noted, no obvious signs of violence had been found.

Sergey Khrushchev had Russian and American citizenship - in 1991 a famous scientist and publicist was invited to Brown University to lecture on the Cold War. Subsequently, he stayed in the US.

In the Soviet Union, Khrushchev Jr. was engaged in the development of cruise and ballistic missile projects, participated in the creation of spacecraft landing systems.