Born in 1946 in Leningrad into an assimilated Jewish family, he graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic University in 1969. Working as an engineer, he was arrested on June 15th 1970. His trial took place in June 1971 (Kishinev trial), where he was sentenced to 4 years of high-security imprisonment in the Gulag. Released in 1974 he left for Israel during the same year. Remember & Save website
