Albrecht Vladimir Yanovich

Albrecht Vladimir Yanovich

Genus. in 1933 in Moscow. Graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. V.I.Lenin in mid. 1950s, mathematician, taught mathematics at a correspondence institute. In the early 1970s, he gained fame as one of the organizers of financial assistance to the families of political prisoners. In 1973–1975 organizes numerous home concerts of A.A. Galich; part of the funds collected during these concerts went to help the families of the repressed. From the beginning In the 1970s, every Saturday at the building of the Moscow synagogue he gave free legal consultations, advice, and provided practical assistance in drawing up official documents to Jewish refuseniks. Led a special legal seminar. He took an active part in the preparation of the symposium “Jewish Culture in the USSR: State and Prospects,” which was supposed to take place in 1976, but was disrupted by the authorities. He was one of the initiators of the creation of two human rights organizations in Moscow: Group 73, and then the national section of Amnesty International. He served as secretary of the Moscow group of Amnesty International (1975–1978), and in 1977, as chairman of the Soviet section of this organization; he left the section in 1981. Author of several samizdat brochures related to the genre of legal education: “How to behave in investigation" (1976). In 1983, he was arrested and sentenced to 3 years in the camps for “slander of the Soviet system.” In 1985, while serving his sentence, he was again sentenced on charges of “malicious hooliganism” to 3.5 years. Released in 1987 during the Gorbachev amnesty. In 1988 he left the USSR. Lives in the USA.