Vakhtin Boris Borisovich (junior)

Vakhtin Boris Borisovich (junior)

Genus. in 1930. In 1954 he graduated from the Chinese department of the Oriental Faculty of Leningrad State University, in 1957 - graduate school. Since 1952, he worked at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Asian Peoples of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where in 1962-1964. headed the Far Eastern office.
In the 1950s he began writing prose. In 1964, together with Vladimir Maramzin, Igor Efimov and Vladimir Gubin, he created the literary group “Citizens”. The collection of the same name they compiled, to which Vakhtin wrote a preface, was offered to the publishing house “Soviet Writer,” but after long discussions, the publishing house rejected it, and the collection was distributed in samizdat. Since 1977, his stories and novellas have been published in the emigrant magazines “Time and We” and “Echo”. In 1979, he took part in the uncensored almanac “Metropol” with the satirical story “Dublenka”.
On January 18, 1968, together with his brother, he wrote a statement to the Supreme Court of the USSR (copy to the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR) demanding a review of the court cases of Sinyavsky and Daniel, Galanskov, Ginzburg, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova, Bukovsky, Ogurtsov, etc.