Yury A. Dmitriev
Gulag researcher and human rights activist · Russia · On the map · Writers · Born 1956 · age 70
Yury Alexeyevich Dmitriev is a local historian and activist in Karelia. From the early 1990s onwards, he worked to locate the execution sites of Stalin's Great Terror in Karelia and, by studying the archives, tried to identify as many as possible of the buried victims they contain.
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2021Andrei Sakharov Freedom AwardAward2020Lev Kopelev PrizeAward2015Gold Cross of MeritAward1956Born28 January 1956
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Since the late 1980s Dmitriev worked continually to compile "Books of Remembrance" for Karelia, listing all the names of those executed there.
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Russia
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Writers
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Born 1956 · age 70
