Yuri Timofeyevich Galanskov 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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Writers born in the 1930s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1939 to 1972 · aged 33
Written about in
13 languages
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