Born in 1937 in Dvinsk, Latvia, he grew up in Riga. His mother left the USSR for Israel several years before his arrest. He himself applied for an exit visa many times, but was always refused. Arrested on June 10th 1970, he was sentenced, at the 1st Leningrad Trial in December 1970, to 4 years of high-security imprisonment in the Gulag. Remember & Save website
