Andrei Sakharov

1979 Sakharov
1979 Sakharov (2006 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.
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Ain Saar
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Albert Lutuli
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Albert Schweitzer
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Aleksandr Zinovyev
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev (October 29, 1922 – May 10, 2006) was a prominent Russian logician and dissident writer of social critique.
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Alexander Ginzburg
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Alexander Nekrich
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Alexander Tarasov
Alexander Nikolaevich Tarasov (, born March 8, 1958 in Moscow) is a Russian Post-Marxist theoretician, sociologist and historian. Tarasov was a left-wing political dissident in the Soviet Union.
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Alexandr Podrabinek
Alexandr Podrabinek (; born August 5, 1953) is a Russian journalist, human rights activist and editor-in-chief of Prima information agency. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
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Alexei Borovoi
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Anatoly Kuznetsov
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Anatoly Marchenko
Anatoly Tikhonovich Marchenko (also Anatoli Marchenko, Anatolii Marchenko, etc.) (January 23, 1938 – December 8, 1986) was an influential and well-known Soviet dissident, author, and human rights campaigner. He was the first recipient of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought of the European Parliament, awarded to him posthumously in 1988 (the only recipient to be honoured in this manner ).
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Andrei Amalrik
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Andrei Sakharov
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Benjamin Fain
Benjamin Fain (, ) (February 17, 1930) is a known physicist, professor-emeritus, former refusenik. Writes popular books on philosophy of science and religion.
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Besarion Jughashvili
Besarion Vanovis Jughashvili (; ;) ( – August 25, 1909) was Joseph Stalin's father. His surname means son of Juga, and is derived from either the Ossetian Juga (that means 'herd') or the old Georgian djogi - 'steel'.
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Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky (; born 29 August 1958 in Moscow) is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia. He is coordinator of the Transnational Institute Global Crisis project and Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (IGSO) in Moscow.
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Boris Pasternak
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Dag Hammarskjöld
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Danylo Shumuk
Danylo Lavrentiyovych Shumuk (, b. December 30, 1914 in village Boremschyna, Russian Empire, now in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine - d. 21 May 2004 in Krasnoarmiisk, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian political activist who served a total of 42 years imprisoned by three different states, Second Polish Republic, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union.
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David Devdariani
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Dmitri Savitski
Dmitry Petrovich Savitsky (, (born January 25, 1944), () is a Russian writer and poet.
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Dominique Pire
Dominique Pire (Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire) (Dinant, February 10, 1910 – Leuven, January 30, 1969) was a Belgian Dominican friar whose work helping refugees in post-World War II Europe saw him receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958. He was the eldest child of Georges Pire, Sr., a civic official, and Berthe (Ravet) Pire.
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Eduard Kuznetsov
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Edward Teller
Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title.
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Efraim Sevela
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Ekaterina Svanidze
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Elena Bonner
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Eliyahu Essas
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Enn Tarto
Enn Tarto (born on 25 September 1938 in Tartu) is an Estonian politician who was a leading dissident during the Soviet occupation of Estonia. He was imprisoned from 1956 to 1960, 1962 to 1967, and again from 1983 to 1988 for anti-Soviet activity.
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Ephraim Kholmyansky
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Ernst Rexer
Ernst Rexer (2 April 1902 in Stuttgart – 14 May 1983 in Dresden) was a German nuclear physicist. He worked on the German nuclear energy program during World War II. After the war, he was sent to Laboratory V, in Obninsk, to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project. In 1956, he was sent to East Germany, where he was a professor and director of the Institute for the Application of Radioactive Isotopes at the Technische Hochschule Dresden.
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Gennady Gorelik
Gennady Gorelik is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. A physicist by education and historian by occupation, he published ten books and many articles on popular science and history of science, including in-depth biographies of 20th century Russian physicists, Matvei Bronstein, Andrei Sakharov, and Lev Landau.
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George Marshall
George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As Secretary of State, his name was given to the Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.
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Georgi Vins
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Georgi Vladimov
Georgi Nikolaevich Vladimov (Volosevich) (February 19, 1931 Kharkiv, Ukraine – October 19, 2003 Frankfurt, Germany) was a Russian dissident writer.
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Gernot Zippe
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Gleb Yakunin
Gleb Pavlovich Yakunin (; born March 4, 1934) is Russian priest and dissident who fought for the freedom of conscience in the Soviet Union. He was member of Moscow Helsinki Group, and he was elected to Russian Parliaments from 1990 to 1999.
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Grigory Isayev
Grigory Zinovyevich Isayev (; born 1943) is a Russian politician and labor activist. He is the leader of the Samara Stachkom (Strike Committee) and the Party of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Isayev was arrested and sentenced to a prison camp in 1981 for his role in organizing workers' strike and an underground communist organization in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev rule. He was arrested twice under Yeltsin in 1998 for leading the successful two-month long strike of the 5,000 ZIM (Zavod imeni Maslennikova) factory's workers and the blockade of the main street of Samara which paralyzed the center of the city.
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Guram Mamulia
Guram Mamulia (May 9, 1937 - January 1, 2003) was a historian, politician and campaigner for Meskhetian rights. A month after Mamulia was born, his father was imprisoned by Stalin. He was raised by his aunt. He graduated with a degree in history from Tbilisi State University in 1960.
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Heinz Pose
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (; born May 27, 1923) is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought out by many following presidents.
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Igor Kurchatov
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Igor Shafarevich
Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (, born June 3, 1923) is an outstanding Soviet and Russian mathematician, founder of a school of algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry in the USSR, and a political writer. He was also an important dissident figure under the Soviet regime, a public supporter of Andrei Sakharov's Human Rights Committee from 1970. He supported the criticisms of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of both Soviet communism and liberal proposals for the future of Russia.
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Igor Tamm
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Ihor Kalynets
Ihor Mironovych Kalynets () (b 1939 in Khodoriv, Lviv Oblast) was a Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident.
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Ivan Drach
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Ivan Kandyba
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Joseph Brodsky
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Joseph Stalin
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Jüri Kukk
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Karel van het Reve
Karel van het Reve (19 May 1921 - 4 March 1999) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.
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Ketevan Geladze
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Konstantin Kuzakov
Konstantin Stepanovich Kuzakov (1911-1996) () was the illegitimate second child of Joseph Stalin. Constantine's mother was Maria Kuzakova, who was Stalin's landlady during his 1911 exile in Solvychegodsk, with whom he had an affair. His mother was still pregnant when Stalin left his exile.
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Kronid Lyubarsky
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Lavrentiy Beria
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Le Duc Tho
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Leonid Borodin
Leonid Ivanovich Borodin () (born April 14, 1938) is a Russian novelist and journalist.
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Les Tanyuk
Leonid (Les) Stepanovych Tanyuk (, b. August 7, 1938, Zhukyn, Kiev Oblast) is a Ukrainian theatre and film director and formerly a dissident and the head of the Club of Creative Youth.
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Lester B. Pearson
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Lev Artsimovich
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Lev Chernyi
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Lev Kopelev
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Lev Navrozov
Lev Navrozov (born 1928 in Moscow) is a Russian author, historian and polemicist and father of poet Andrei Navrozov. A leading translator of Russian texts into English under the Soviet regime, Navrozov emigrated to the United States in 1972, where he published a best-selling memoir, The Education of Lev Navrozov, and became a prominent Russian dissident.
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Levko Lukyanenko
Levko Lukyanenko (); (sometimes written as Levko Lukianenko) is a Ukrainian politician, and Soviet dissident and Hero of Ukraine.
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Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko (, born on March 19, 1930 in Rzhyshchiv, Kiev Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian poet and writer, recipient of the Shevchenko Award (1987).
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Linus Pauling
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Lydia Chukovskaya
Lydia Korneievna Chukovskaya () ( – February 8, 1996) was a Soviet writer and poet. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. She was herself the daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky, wife of the scientist Matvei Bronstein, and close associate and chronicler of the poet Anna Akhmatova.
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Léon Jouhaux
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Marcel Dekker
Marcel Dekker is a well-known journal and encyclopedia publishing company with editorial boards found in New York, New York. They are part of the Taylor and Francis publishing group.
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Merab Kostava
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev ( Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov ; born 2 March 1931) was the sixth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991.
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Moysey Fishbein
Moysey (Moses) Fishbeyn () is an influential Ukrainian poet and translator of Jewish origin. He was born in 1946 in Chernivtsi, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine).
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Mykola Horbal
Mykola Andriyovych Horbal (; born May 6, 1941) is a well-known Ukrainian dissident, human right activists, member of parliament of Ukraine, poet, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
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Mykola Rudenko
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Myroslav Marynovych
Myroslav Frankovych Marynovych (), b. January 4, 1949, is the vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, founder of Amnesty International Ukraine, and a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
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Nadezhda Mandelstam
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Nadiya Svitlychna
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Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky (born 1948) (, (, ) is a former Soviet refusenik and prisoner, Israeli politician, human rights activist and author.
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Naum Meiman
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Nikolaus Riehl
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Nikolay Dollezhal
Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal (October 27, 1899 – November 20, 2000) was a Soviet mechanical engineer, a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors from the first plutonium production reactor to the RBMK.
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Norman Borlaug
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Oleksa Hirnyk
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Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (also spelled Osip Mandelshtam, Ossip Mandelstamm) () ( – December 27, 1938) was a Soviet poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.
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Paruyr Hayrikyan
Paruyr Hayrikyan (also Paruir Airikian and some other transliterations) (born July 5, 1949) is an Armenian politician, former Soviet dissident, founder and leader of the democracy movements in the Soviet Union.
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Pavel Fitin
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Pavel Litvinov
Pavel Litvinov (, born 1940) is a Russian physicist, writer, human rights activist and former Soviet-era dissident. He is the grandson of Maxim Litvinov, Joseph Stalin's foreign minister during the 1930s, and as such was born and raised amongst the Soviet elite. As a schoolboy, he was devoted to the cult of Stalin, and was tapped, unsuccessfully, by the KGB to report on his parents Flora and Misha Litvinov (a story that is related by the journalist David Remnick in his book ).
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Pavel Sudoplatov
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Perseus (spy)
Perseus was the codename of a possible Soviet spy alleged to have breached U.S. national security at Los Alamos during the Manhattan project. This name is also given to a spy at White Sands Missile Range, located further south near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Evidence for his or her existence is based on a few references in KGB archives opened (and later closed) to researchers in the early 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union. There are also a few references to Perseus in the VENONA decrypts as PERS. The identity of this person, or even whether or not they actually existed, is unknown, and many of the facts in the matter are questionable.
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Pyotr Grigorenko
Petro Grigorenko or Petro Hryhorovych Hryhorenko or Pyotr Grigoryevich Grigorenko (, ; 1907-1987) was a high-ranked Soviet Army commander of Ukrainian descent, later a prominent Soviet human rights activist, dissident and writer.
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René Cassin
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Romas Kalanta
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Roy Medvedev
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev (; born November 14, 1925, Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Russian historian renowned as the author of the dissident history of Stalinism, Let History Judge (), first published in English in 1972. Medvedev became a prominent Russian politician and served as a consultant to Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Saville Sax
Saville Sax (July 26, 1924 – September 25, 1980) was the Harvard University roommate of Theodore Hall who recruited Hall for the Soviets and acted as a courier to move the atomic secrets from Los Alamos to the Soviets.
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Semyon Gluzman
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Sergei Kovalev
Sergei Kovalev (also spelt as Sergey Kovalev; ; born March 2, 1930) is a Russian human rights activist and politician and a former Soviet dissident and political prisoner.
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Sergei Soldatov
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Sergey Kirov
Sergei Mironovich Kirov (; – 1 December 1934), born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov, was a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the Party organization in Leningrad. Kirov was seen as a focal point of opposition to the more extreme policies of Joseph Stalin, and as a counterbalance to the increasing concentration of power in Stalin's hands.
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Seán MacBride
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Shmuel Schneurson
Shmuel Schneurson was a leader of the underground Zionist movement Hechalutz in Soviet Union from 1922 to 1928. Though he had the option of remaining in British Palestine during his 1927 visit, he chose to return to the USSR to organize underground Zionist activities. He was arrested in February 1928 and sentenced to a correction camp in the Ural Mountains, followed by a three-year sentence in Siberia. In 1934, he was released and returned to Moscow. After applying for an exit permit to return to Palestine, he was promptly rearrested and sentenced. His final whereabouts remain unknown. In 1946, his former landlady received a letter informing her of his passing.
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Sofia Kalistratova
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Sofiya Kalistratova
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Svetlana Alliluyeva
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (sometimes Stalina, later Lana Peters) (born February 28, 1926, Moscow, Soviet Union) () is the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva (Stalin's second wife). A writer and naturalized United States citizen, Alliluyeva caused an international furore by defecting to the United States in 1967.
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Vadim Delaunay
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Valeriy Marchenko
Valeriy Marchenko (; September 16, 1947 - October 7, 1984) was a poet, journalist, translator, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
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Valery Chalidze
Valery Chalidze (; , Valeriy Nikolayevich Chalidze) (born 1938) is a Georgian-American author, publisher, and the former Soviet dissident and human rights activist.
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Valery Tarsis
Valery Yakovlevich Tarsis (1906-1983) a Russian novelist who was highly critical of the communist regime.
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Vasyl Stus
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Vasyl Symonenko
Vasyl Symonenko (; January 8, 1935 - 1963) a well-known Ukrainian poet, journalist, activist of dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Ukrainian literature of the early 1960s. By the opinion of the Museum of dissident movement in Kiev, the works and early death of Vasyl Symonenko had an enormous impact on the rise of the national democratic movement in Ukraine.
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Viacheslav Chornovil
Viacheslav Chornovil () (born December 24, 1937 in Yerky, Katerynopil Raion, Cherkasy Oblast - died March 25, 1999, near Boryspil, Kiev Oblast) was a Ukrainian politician. A prominent Ukrainian dissident to the Soviet policies, he was arrested multiple times in the 1960s and 1970s for his political views. A long-time advocate of Ukrainian independence, he was one of the most prominent political figures of the late 1980s and early 1990s who paved the path of the contemporary Ukraine to its independence.
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Victor Sokolov
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Viktor Fainberg
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Viktor Nekipelov
Viktor Aleksandrovich Nekipelov (; September 29, 1928 Harbin, China - July 1, 1989 Paris) was a Russian poet, translator, human rights activist and dissident.
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Vitaliy Kalynychenko
Vitaliy Kalynychenko (, born January 31, 1938) was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
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Vitaly Ginzburg
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Vladimir Bougrine
Vladimir Bougrine () also known as Wladimir Bugrin (10 June 1938, Leningrad - 10 August 2001, St. Petersburg) was a Russian painter.
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Vladimir Shelkov
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Vladimir Strelnikov
Vladimir Strelnikov (born 1939) is a Ukrainian artist and former Soviet dissident.
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Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich (alternatively spelled Voynovich, , born 26 September 1932 in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) writer and a dissident. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Language and Literature.
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Vyacheslav Molotov
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Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (; 18 December 1913 - 8 October 1992), was a German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1969–1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1964–1987.
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Yakov Dzhugashvili
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Yaroslav Lesiv
Yaroslav Lesiv () (January 3, 1945 - October 10, 1991) was a Ukrainian poet, priest, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
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Yekaterina Peshkova
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Yelena Bonner
Yelena Georgevna Bonner (; born February 15, 1923) is a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov.
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Yevgenia Ginzburg
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Yosef Mendelevitch
Yosef Mendelevitch (or Mendelovitch) (b. 1947 in Riga), was a well-known Jewish refusenik, also known as a "Prisoner of Zion" and now a Religious Zionist rabbi in the former Soviet Union who gained fame for his adherence to Zionism and public attempts to emigrate to Israel at a time when it was considered to be against the law in the USSR.
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Yosyf Zisels
Yosyf Zisels (born 12 December 1941 in Tashkent) was a human rights activist and Ukrainian dissident.
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Yuli Daniel
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Yuliy Kim
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Yuri Galanskov
Yuri Timofeyevich Galanskov (June 19, 1939, Moscow - November 4, 1972, Mordovia) was a Russian poet, historian, human rights activist and dissident. For his political activities, such as founding and editing samizdat almanac Phoenix, he was incarcerated in prisons, camps and forced treatment psychiatric hospitals (Psikhushkas). He died in a labor camp.
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Yuri Orlov
Yuri Feodorovich Orlov (, born August 13, 1924) is Professor of Physics and Government at Cornell University,
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Zoya Krakhmalnikova
Zoya Alexandrovna Krakhmalnikova (January 14, 1929 - April 17, 2008) was a Russian Christian writer, of Ukrainian origin. She wrote in Russian only as many Ukrainians were forced to do during the Soviet regime. She was an activist and former Soviet dissident who was repeatedly arrested by the authorities of the former Soviet Union for her publications.
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Zviad Gamsakhurdia
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Andrei Sakharov Андрей Сахаров
Andrei Sakharov
Born	(1921-05-21)May 21, 1921 Moscow, Russian SFSR
Died	December 14, 1989(1989-12-14) (aged 68) Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Residence	Moscow, Soviet Russia
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet Russia
Fields	Nuclear Physics
Alma mater	Moscow State University FIAN
Known for	Third Idea Soviet nuclear program dissident human rights activist
Notable awards	Hero of Socialist Labor (1953, 1955, 1962), Stalin Prize (1953), Lenin Prize (1956), Nobel Peace Prize (1975), Elliott Cresson Medal (1985)

Persondata
Name	Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich
Alternative names	Сахаров, Андрей
Short description	Soviet nuclear physicist
Date of birth	May 21, 1921
Place of birth	Moscow, RSFSR
Date of death	December 14, 1989
Place of death	Moscow, USSR

Persondata
Name	Bonner, Yelena Georgievna
Alternative names	Боннэр, Елена Георгиевна (Russian); Alikhanova, Lusik Georgievna
Short description	human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov
Date of birth	15 February 1923
Place of birth	Merv, Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Mary, Turkmenistan)
Date of death	18 June 2011
Place of death	Massachusetts, USA

Medal record
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
Gold	1988 Seoul	4x100 m relay
World Championships
Silver	1987 Rome	4x100 m relay

Persondata
Name	Krylov, Vladimir
Alternative names
Short description	Athletics (sport) competitor
Date of birth	February 26, 1964
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

Persondata
Name	Manukyan, Edward
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1981-07-27
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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