Born in 1930 in the town of Borisoglebsk (near Voronezh) to a Zionist family, which observed Jewish traditions, he was brought up in an atmosphere of Hassidism but was also as a follower of Vladimir Zhabotinsky’s ideas. From the very birth of the state of Israel he searched actively for the ways of getting to Israel and also spread ideas of Zionism among his friends. In 1952 he was arrested and received a 10 years sentence to the Gulag; even there he continued distributing Zionist propaganda among Jewish inmates. He spent 2.5 years in Serlag and in 1955 he was released. Despite severe prosecutions from the authorities, he continued agitating to leave for Israel. But it was not till 1973 that he finally got out of the USSR. He died in 1991.
