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Vladimir Bukovsky
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30 Dec 1942
† 27 Oct 2019
Belebey, Bashkir ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Bashkortostan, Russia]
Biography
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский; 30 December 1942 – 27 October 2019) was a Russian-born British human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well known at home and abroad. He spent a total of twelve years in the psychiatric prison-hospitals, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union during Brezhnev rule. After being expelled from the Soviet Union in late 19...
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Владимир Буковский, Vladimir Bukovskiy, Vladimir Boukovski
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