NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Yuri Galanskov

For his political activities, such as founding and editing samizdat almanac Phoenix, he was incarcerated in prisons, camps and forced treatment psychiatric hospitals (see psikhushka).

In 1967, he was sentenced to seven years of labor camp, where he died, allegedly after an unsuccessful surgical operation on ulcer.

Categories: Russian writers | Soviet dissidents | 1939 births | 1972 deaths | People stubs

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