On 4 November 1972, the poet Yury Galanskov died in the prison hospital at Barashevo in Mordovia. He was 33 years old. Together with Alexander Ginzburg and two others, Galanskov was prosecuted and convicted at a closed trial in January 1968.
Category: Biography (A-Z)
Vladimir Bukovsky, 1942-2019
Belebei (USSR), 30 December 1942 — Cambridge (UK), 27 October 2019. Vladimir BUKOVSKY died of cardiac arrest in Addenbrookes Hospital, in Cambridge, England at 9:30 pm (Greenwich Mean Time) on Sunday, 27 October 2019. He was 76. His health had been poor in recent years. After his expulsion from the USSR in December 1976, he … Continue reading Vladimir Bukovsky, 1942-2019
No 34 : 31 December 1974
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Only two of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE 34-36, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page (1) The Arrest of Sergei Kovalyov [6] (2) The Trial of Mikhail Kheifets … Continue reading No 34 : 31 December 1974
No 35 : 31 March 1975
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Few of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE Nos 34-36, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page *** (1) The Situation of Leonid Plyushch [58] (2) The Case of Anatoly … Continue reading No 35 : 31 March 1975
No 51 : 1 December 1978
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES None of the reports in this issue have yet been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE No 51, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page *** TRIALS (1) The trial of Robert Nazaryan (Yerevan) [8] (2) The trial … Continue reading No 51 : 1 December 1978
“The freight and the groove” (2000)
Prisoners of an old regime ♣ Marjorie Farquharson ♣ (July 2000) When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in previous decades seemed to be merely a dry-run. Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939-1993) became Georgia’s first freely-elected President after the Soviet Union collapsed, with a mandate … Continue reading “The freight and the groove” (2000)
Obituary: Grigory Podyapolsky, 9 March 1976 (39.1)
<< No 39 : 12 March 1976 >> On the night of 8/9 March 1976, Grigory Sergeyevich PODYAPOLSKY, a scientist and poet, one of those who has fought openly and courageously for human rights in the USSR, died of a brain haemorrhage in a Saratov hospital. Grigory Podyapolsky had an exceptional, outsize and vivid personality. … Continue reading Obituary: Grigory Podyapolsky, 9 March 1976 (39.1)
«Хроника» возникла самозарождением
"Почти как стихи…" Интервью с Натальей Горбаневской (Париж, 2003). Наталья Евгеньевна ГОРБАНЕВСКАЯ (1936–2013) — поэт, переводчик, журналист. Основатель и первый издатель самиздатского бюллетеня «Хроника текущих событий». Участница «демонстрации семерых» на Красной площади 25 августа 1968. Член Инициативной группы по защите прав человека в СССР. Наталья Евгеньевна, расскажите, как вы оказались в кругу диссидентов? Слово «диссиденты», … Continue reading «Хроника» возникла самозарождением
Obituary: Alexander Tvardovsky, January 1972 (23.10)
«No 23 : 5 January 1972» Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky died on 18 December 1971. The Chronicle considers it suitable to publish the following text as his obituary: There are many ways of killing a poet. The method chosen for Tvardovsky was to take away his offspring, his passion, his journal. The sixteen years of insults … Continue reading Obituary: Alexander Tvardovsky, January 1972 (23.10)
Obituary: Mykhaylo Soroka, July 1971 (20.13)
«No 20 : 2 July 1971» On 17 June Mykhaylo Soroka died suddenly of a heart attack in Dubrovlag, Camp 17-a. Mykhaylo Mykhaylovych Soroka was born in the Ternopol Region in 1911. An architect by profession, he studied in Prague. In 1930 he took part in the activities of the OUN [Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists], … Continue reading Obituary: Mykhaylo Soroka, July 1971 (20.13)
The Trial of Mustafa Dzhemilev, 14-15 April 1976 (40.3)
<<No 40 : 20 May 1976>> MUSTAFA DZHEMILEV (Abduldzhemil) was born in November 1943. During the deportation of May 1944, his family – his mother and her four children (his father was at the front) – ended up in Uzbekistan. In 1966 Mustafa was expelled from the third-year course of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation … Continue reading The Trial of Mustafa Dzhemilev, 14-15 April 1976 (40.3)
Obituaries: Boris Talantov, Nikolai Samsonov, March 1971 (18.12)
«No 18 : 5 March 1971» Boris V. TALANTOV (1903-1971] 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 … Continue reading Obituaries: Boris Talantov, Nikolai Samsonov, March 1971 (18.12)
Obituary: Julian Oksman, October 1970 (16.12)
«No 16 : 31 October 1970» Professor Julian [Yulian] Grigorevich Oksman, Doctor of philological sciences, died on 15 September 1970 in his seventy-sixth year. J.G. Oksman was born in 30 December 1894 in Voznesensk in the Kherson Province. After leaving high school in 1911 he entered the History and Philology Faculty of St. Petersburg University. … Continue reading Obituary: Julian Oksman, October 1970 (16.12)
A short biography of Andrei Sverdlov, April 1969 (7.9)
«No 7 : 30 April 1969» Based on the samizdat document "About the unusual fate of the members of the family and relations of Ya. M. Sverdlov". *** When quite young, no more than twenty years old, Andrei Ya. Sverdlov, only son of [Lenin’s comrade] Yakov M. Sverdlov, began to work for the NKVD [pre-war … Continue reading A short biography of Andrei Sverdlov, April 1969 (7.9)
Obituary: Alexander Lavut (1929-2013)
“Alexander Lavut was a member of the Action Group for the Defence of Human Rights, the first organisation in the USSR to openly defend such rights, yet he never boasted about having belonged to the oldest organisation of its kind in Russia. Lavut was among the editors of the legendary Chronicle of Current Events (1968-1982) … Continue reading Obituary: Alexander Lavut (1929-2013)
Biography (A-Z)
A few basic details are included here: name and patronymic, profession and terms of imprisonment and incarceration. Common alternate spellings of some first names and surnames are indicated [thus]. Biographies of many may be found on the Gratitude Fund website. A. ALTUNYAN, Genrikh Ovanesovich (1933-2005) — military communications officer//; born Tbilisi, died Jerusalem. AMALRIK, Andrei … Continue reading Biography (A-Z)
The Death of Yury Galanskov, November 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 The Death of Yury Galanskov, November 1972 (28.2)
