Alexander Ginzburg
Russian writer
Died when: 65 years 240 days (787 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Alexander "Alik" Ilyich Ginzburg (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Ги́нзбург, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɨˈlʲjidʑ ˈɡʲinzbʊrk]; 21 November 1936 – 19 July 2002), was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident.
Between 1961 and 1969 he was sentenced three times to labor camps.In 1979, Ginzburg was released and expelled to the United States, along with four other political prisoners (Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits, Valentin Moroz, and Georgy Vins) and their families, as part of a prisoner exchange.
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