«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 on 30 December 1894 in Voznesensk, Kherson Province (south Ukraine). After leaving high school in 1911 he entered the History and Philology Faculty of St. Petersburg … Continue reading Julian Oksman, 1894-1970 (16.12)
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Alexander Lavut (1929-2013)
«Grani.ru» “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 … Continue reading Alexander Lavut (1929-2013)
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