Born in 1939 in Moscow to a Russian mother and Jewish father, he became a student in the Department of Philosophy at Moscow State University. In 1961, while still a student, he was arrested for anti-Soviet activity and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in the high-security camps of the Gulag. In the camps he identified himself as a Jew. After his release in 1970 he married Silva Zalmanson and worked as a statistician in Riga Psychiatric Hospital. On June 15th, 1970 he was arrested and in December 1970, at the 1st Leningrad trial was sentenced to death. This sentence was commuted to 15 years imprisonment in a highest-security camp. In 1979 he was released as part of a spy exchange and allowed to emigrate to Israel. Remember & Save website
