Yuri Galanskov

Poet, Author

1939 – 1972

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Who was Yuri Galanskov?

Yuri Timofeyevich Galanskov Russian: Юрий Тимофеевич Галансков 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. He died in a labor camp.

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Born
Jun 19, 1939
Soviet Union
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Died
Nov 4, 1972
Mordovia

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on July 23, 2013

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