Born in 1947 in Riga, he graduated from Riga Electromechanical Technical school and went on to study for 3 years in the Moscow Art Polygraph Institute., later working as a senior engineer in an experimental factory of art accessories in Riga. Arrested on August 4th, 1970, and tried in May, 1971 at the Riga trial, he was. sentenced to a year of imprisonment in a high security Gulag camp. Notes from Remember & Save website; Photo: Kosharovsky website
