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Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage
The Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage (1990–2007) was an annual literary prize established in the Soviet Union by the "Writers in Support of Perestroika" association (also known as the "Aprel" (April) association), in October 1990."For Writer's Civic Courage" , '''', 31 October 1990 It ceased to exist in 2007, when the "Aprel" association was dissolved. The first recipient of the prize was . The last recipient was Galina Drobot, editor-in-chief of the "Aprel" almana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakharov Prize (other) , an annual literary prize existing between 1990 and 2007
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The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is an award for the defense of human rights and freedom of thought established in 1988 by the European Parliament. Sakharov Prize may also refer to: * Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS), a prize awarded every second year by the American Physical Society since 2006 * Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award, an award established in 1980 by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee * Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage The Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage (1990–2007) was an annual literary prize established in the Soviet Union by the "Writers in Support of Perestroika" association (also known as the "Aprel" (April) association), in October 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Rzhevskaya
Elena Moiseevna Rzhevskaya (Russian: Еле́на Моисе́евна Рже́вская, born Elena Kagan; 27 October 1919 – 25 April 2017) was a writer and former Soviet war interpreter. In April and May, 1945, she participated in the Battle of Berlin. According to her memoirs, called in English ''Memories of a War-time Interpreter'', she was a member of the Soviet unit searching for Adolf Hitler in the ruins of the Reich Chancellery. Hitler's charred remains were, according to her own words, found by soldier Ivan Churakov on 4 May 1945. Four days later, on 8 May, Colonel Vassily Gorbushin gave her a small box that contained Hitler's dental remains. During the identification of the corpse, the Soviet team worked in top-secret conditions. Rzhevskaya and Gorbushin managed to find in Berlin, Käthe Heusermann, an assistant of Hugo Blaschke, Hitler's personal dentist. Rzhevskaya (2012), p. 195 Heusermann confirmed the identity of the Nazi leader. The information was, however, supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yunna Morits
Yunna Petrovna Morits (Moritz) (; born June 2, 1937), is a Soviet and Russian poet, poetry translator and activist.Soviet poets are heard in Philadelphia by , 1989. She was a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage and the Golden Rose (Italy). Biography She was born in , |
Mikhail Roshchin
Mikhail Mikhailovich Roshchin (; 10 February 1933 – 1 October 2010) was a Russian playwright, screenwriter and short story writer. Biography He was born to Mikhail Gibelman (born 1908) and Klavdiya Efimova-Tyurkina (born 1911), Roshchin spent his early childhood in Sevastopol. In 1943, during World War II, the family moved to Moscow. After finishing school, Roshchin worked as a miner at fort rose, and attended night classes at the Moscow State Lenin Pedagogical Institute. In 1952, he published his first story in the Moscow daily newspaper, ''Moskovsky Komsomolets''. In 1953, he entered the Literary Institute and worked as a journalist of the regional newspaper, ''Kamyshin'' in the city of Volga. Whilst there, in 1956 he wrote his first collection of his short stories ''In a Small Town'', published in 1957. In 1963, Roshchin wrote the play ''The Seventh feat of Hercules'', which due to censorship was not fully published until 1988. In 1968, he wrote the children's play, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich (; 26 September 1932 – 27 July 2018) was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system. Among his most well-known works are the satirical epic '' The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin'' and the dystopian '' Moscow 2042''. He was forced into exile and stripped of his citizenship by Soviet authorities in 1980 but later rehabilitated and moved back to Moscow in 1990. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he continued to be an outspoken critic of Russian politics under the rule of Vladimir Putin. Biography Early life Voinovich was born in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union. According to himself, his father was of Serbian descent and a translator of Serbian literature, and his mother was of Jewish descent. Vladimir Voinovich claimed that his father belonged to the Serbian Vojnović noble family, although this is solely based on his surname and the book by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Vladimov
Georgi Nikolayevich Vladimov (; real family name Volosevich, ; 19 February 1931, Kharkiv – 19 October 2003, Frankfurt) was a Russian dissident writer. Biography In 1977 he became the leader of the Moscow section of Amnesty International, forbidden in the USSR. In 1983, he emigrated to West Germany. Vladimov's most famous novel is ''Faithful Ruslan,'' the tale of a guard dog in a Soviet Gulag, told from the dog's perspective. It circulated in the Soviet Union as a samizdat publication, before being published in West Germany in 1975. His novel ''The General and His Army'', on General Chibisov (Kobrissov) and General Vlasov, was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 1995 and the Sakharov Prize in 2000. Works * ''The Great Ore'' (''Большая руда'', 1961) * ''Three Minutes of Silence'' (''Три минуты молчания'', 1969) * ''Faithful Ruslan ''Faithful Ruslan'', subtitled ''The Story of a Guard Dog'' (), is a 1975 novel by Soviet dissident writer Georgi Vl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoya Krakhmalnikova
Zoya Alexandrovna Krakhmalnikova (; January 14, 1929 – April 17, 2008) was a Russian Christian writer, of Ukrainian origin. She was an activist and former Soviet dissident who was repeatedly arrested by the authorities of the former Soviet Union for her publications. She was a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage. Early life and career Krakhmalnikova was born in the city of Kharkov, Ukraine on January 14, 1929. Her father was arrested in 1936 during one of Joseph Stalin's many purges. She graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in 1954 in Moscow and completed her postgraduate work at the Gorky Institute of World Literature despite her family's background. An avid scholarly writer, Krakhmalnikova was publishing articles in Soviet literary journals by the 1960s. She became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Institute of Sociology in 1967. Her husband was fellow author Feliks Svetov. Dissident Zoya Krakhmalnikova was baptized into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Vasilyev (writer)
Boris Lvovich Vasilyev (; 21 May 1924 – 11 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He is considered the last representative of the so-called lieutenant prose, a group of former low-ranking Soviet officers who dramatized their traumatic World War II experience. Biography Born into a family of Russian nobility.''Boris Vasilyev (2003)''. Extraordinary Century. — Moscow: Vagrius, 236 pages. (Autobiography) His father Lev Aleksandrovich Vasilyev (1892—1968) came from a dynasty of military officers; he served in the Imperial Russian Army and took part in the First World War in the rank of Poruchik before joining the Red Army. Vasilyev's mother Yelena Nikolayevna Alekseyeva (1892—1978) belonged to a noble Alekseyev family tree that traces its history back to the 15th century; her father was among the founders of the Circle of Tchaikovsky. In 1941, Boris Vasilyev volunteered for the front line and joined a destruction battalion. He fought as part of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Razgon
Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon (; 1 April 1908 – 8 September 1999) was a Soviet Russian journalist, writer, a prisoner of the Gulag from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1950 to 1955 and, latterly, a human rights activist. Razgon was born in Belorussia to the family of Mendel Abramovich Razgon and Glika Izrailevna Shapiro. In the 1920s they moved to Moscow and in 1932, he graduated from the history faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. His career before his arrest in 1938 was in great measure due to his marrying into the new Soviet elite and, in particular, two men: his wife Oksana's father Gleb Boky, a high-ranking NKVD officer, and her step-father Ivan Moskvin, a leading figure in the Central Committee. Later in life, Razgon fell into the category of Gulag detainees who rejoined the Communist Party after their release. He did not resign from the Party until 1988. Life before arrest After moving to Moscow Razgon met and married Oksana, the daughter of Gleb Boky and step- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semyon Lipkin
Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin () (6 September 1911 – 31 March 2003) was a Russian writer, poet, and literary translator. Lipkin's work gained wider recognition after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was supported by his wife, poet Inna Lisnyanskaya. Lipkin was a close friend of Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Lipkin's poetry explores themes of history and philosophy. His poems reference his Jewish heritage and the Bible, and draw on his experiences in World War II and the Great Purge. Lipkin's opposition to the Soviet regime became public in 1979-1980 when he contributed to the uncensored almanac " Metropol." Subsequently, he and Lisnyanskaya left the Union of Soviet Writers. Early years Lipkin was born in Odessa to Israel and Rosalia Lipkin on September 6, 1911. He was of Jewish ethnicity. His father, a tailor, was active in the Menshevik movement. Lipkin's early education included Hebrew and Torah instruction. His education was interrupted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Chichibabin
Boris Alekseyevich Chichibabin , romanized: ''Borys Oleksiyovych Chychybabin''; 9 January 1923, Kremenchuk – 15 December 1994, Kharkiv; born Polushin, was a Russian-language Ukrainian poet and a laureate of the USSR State Prize (1990), who is typically regarded as one of the Sixtiers. He lived in Kharkiv, and in the course of three decades became one of the most famous and best-loved members of the artistic intelligentsia of the city, i.e., from the 1950s to 1980s. From the end of the 1950s, his poetry was widely distributed throughout the Soviet Union as samizdat. Official recognition came only at the end of his life in the time of perestroika. Life and work Boris Chichibabin was the son of an army officer was educated in Chuguev in Kharkov oblast. His pseudonym was taken in honour of his uncle once removed on his mother's side, the academic Aleksei Chichibabin, an eminent chemist and one of the first Soviet 'nonreturnees'. In 1940, Boris began his studies at the Kharkov Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
