Yuri Galanskov

Yuri Galanskov

Yuri Timofeyevich Galanskov Russian: Юрий Тимофеевич Галансков (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.

Read more about Yuri Galanskov:  Early Publications, The Daniel-Sinyavsky Trial, Final Work, The Trial of The Four, Imprisonment and Death