Born on September 19th, 1941 in Kharkov, he lived in Chernovtsy, Lugansk, Odessa and Riga. In 1968 he applied for the exit visa to go to Israel, but was refused. Arrested in 1970 as a member of the "Aircraft group”, he was sentenced, at the 1st Leningrad trial, to 12 years in the high-security camps of the Gulag. Later his sentence was decreased to 10 years which he spent in the camps of Pot'ma and in the Urals. In 1979, however, after "only" 9 years of imprisonment, his sentence was commuted (as it was for the majority of the members of the "Aircraft group"). When released, he managed to get to Israel on April 29th 1979. He lives in Haifa. Kosharovsky website
