<< No 30 : 31 December 1973 >> ♦ Ilya Yankelevich GABAI is dead. He committed suicide on 20 October by jumping from the balcony of his 11th-floor flat ♦ More than a hundred people gathered at the Nikolskoye Crematorium in Moscow to pay their last respects to him. His ashes have been interred beside his … Continue reading The Death of Ilya Gabai (1935-1973), 30.1
Category: Death of a Dissenter
B.V. Talantov, 1903-1971; N.N. Samsonov, 1906-1971 (18.12)
«No 18 : 5 March 1971» Boris V. TALANTOV On 4 January 1971 Boris Vladimirovich TALANTOV (b. 1903) died in the prison hospital in Kirov [Volga District]. He was arrested on 12 June 1969 and at the beginning of September sentenced under Article 190-1 of the Russian Criminal Code to three years' imprisonment (CCE 8.14, … Continue reading B.V. Talantov, 1903-1971; N.N. Samsonov, 1906-1971 (18.12)
Yury Galanskov, 1939-1972 (December 1972; 28.2)
«No 28 : 31 December 1972» On 2 November 1972 Yury GALANSKOV died at the age of 33 in the Mordovian camp complex (in institution ZhKh 385-3). * Yury Timofeyevich GALANSKOV was born in 1939 in Moscow, into a family of workers. From 1959 onwards he took part in readings by young poets in Mayakovsky … Continue reading Yury Galanskov, 1939-1972 (December 1972; 28.2)
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