Born in 1929 in Anan’evo, in the Leningrad region, he became a member of an underground Zionist organization. Arrested in 1970 on charges of Zionist and anti-Soviet activity, he was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in the Gulag. His time was served in the camps of Mordovia and Perm, and also in the Vladimir prison. He wrote many letters of protest to the Soviet authorities against the growing anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. Released in 1977, he left for Israel in the same year.
