<< 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 Grigory Podyapolsky, 1926-1976 (39.1)
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The Death of Ilya Gabai, 1935-1973 (30.1)
<< No 30 : 31 December 1973 >> ♦ Ilya Yankelevich GABAI is dead. He committed suicide on 20 October 1973 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 … Continue reading The Death of Ilya Gabai, 1935-1973 (30.1)
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