Group work of the youth organization "Left Opposition" (Skobov A.V., Tsurkov A.S., Reznikov A.I., etc.)

Reznikov Andrei Ilyich

Genus. in 1958 in Leningrad. After graduating from school in 1975, he entered the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad State University in 1976. He was expelled from there due to the initiation of a criminal case under Art. 70 of the USSR Criminal Code. In the spring of 1976, on the opening day of the 25th Congress of the CPSU, he distributed leaflets together with a group of young people. Arrested; charged under Art. 70 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the RSFSR, but a month later the case was dismissed (probably under Article 6 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the RSFSR), released. In 1976 - 1978 served as a private in the army, then worked at the Computing Center of the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. In 1980 - 1981 worked in a geological party in Gorny Altai, where he left due to the threat of arrest. In 1981-1993 worked as a technician, engineer at the Department of Cybernetics of the North-Western Correspondence Polytechnic Institute, in 1981 - 1986. I studied there by correspondence. In 1986-1993 he studied at the Faculty of Geography of Leningrad State University, and since 1993 he worked there as an engineer, assistant, and senior teacher. In 2007 he defended his Ph.D. thesis.

Skobov Alexander Valerievich

Born in 1957. In 1976 he was a student in the evening department of the history department of Leningrad State University, a member of the underground organization "New Left". On February 24, 1976, on the opening day of the 25th Congress of the CPSU, he took part in distributing leaflets in Leningrad from the gallery of Gostiny Dvor with calls for a new revolution. In April 1976, he created the underground student commune "Leningrad School". Then the "Left Opposition" group was organized, which was engaged in the samizdat publication of the magazine "Prospects" (editor - Skobov A.V.). He was arrested in December 1978 together with his fellow workers A.S. Tsurkov and A.I. Reznikov. He refused to emigrate from the USSR. At the Serbsky Research Institute, he was declared insane and placed in a special psychiatric hospital. After his release in 1981, he joined SMOT. Lived in Leningrad. On 12-13.12.1982, he took part in an action to paint walls with political slogans. On 20.12.1982, he was arrested. Again placed in a special psychiatric hospital, from which he was released in 1985. He took part in the activities of the "Democratic Union", for which in 1988 he was searched along with four other defendants in "Case No. 64" (charges under "ASA"). The case was closed in 1989 due to a change in the wording of the article. In the 1990s, he worked as a history teacher at School No. 90 (St. Petersburg). After the start of the First Chechen War, he was an active participant in the anti-war movement, the author of a number of anti-war appeals. In the late 2000s, he was a member of the Yabloko party, from which he left in 2010. In 2009-2011 — member of the coordinating council of the St. Petersburg branch of the Solidarity movement. In March 2010, he signed the appeal of the Russian opposition "Putin must go". Columnist for the Grani.ru portal. On March 21, 2025, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison by the 1st Western District Military Court of St. Petersburg. He was recognized as a political prisoner.

Tsurkov Arkady Samsonovich

Born 03/15/1958 in Leningrad; Jew. In 1975 he graduated from school No. 121. Member of the underground student organization "Left Opposition", author of articles in the samizdat magazine "Perspective". In 1977 he entered Tartu State University at the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1978 he transferred to Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after. Herzen, math.-physics. faculty. Arrested 10/31/1978. Sentenced by the Leningrad City Court on 04/06/1979 under Article 70 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 5 years in a camp and 2 years in exile. He served his sentence in the Perm camps and Chistopol prison. Arrested in prison for the second time at the end of 1983 for continuing his human rights activities while in prison. Sentenced on March 16, 1984 by the Kirovsky District Court of Kazan under Part 2 of Art. 193 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 2 years of imprisonment with the addition of unserved two years of exile for the first sentence. Disabled person (heart disease, thrombophlebitis, severe myopia). Served exile in the village. Troitsko-Pechorsk (Komi ASSR). On 02/12/1987 he was pardoned by the Decree of the PVS of the USSR and released from serving exile. 05/15/1987 registered in Leningrad. Rehabilitated on August 12, 1992 by the conclusion of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. Emigrated to Israel.