Group business of the "Educational Society"

Balakirev Valery Ivanovich

Genus. in 1940 in Moscow; Higher education - Moscow Institute of Steel. Teacher of metallurgy at the Moscow Evening Metallurgical College. Author of samizdat in the 1970s, author of articles in the samizdat magazine "Free Thought". One of the initiators and participant of the "Enlightenment Society", co-author of the charter of the underground organization "Principles of the structure and activities of the Educational Society". Arrested 09/22/1972. Convicted by the Moscow City Court on November 23, 1973 under Art. 70 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for 5 years probation.

Bolonkin Alexander Alexandrovich

Genus. in 1933 in Perm; Russian; higher education, graduated from the Kazan Aviation Institute in 1958. Mathematician, Associate Professor of the Department of Higher Mathematics at MATI, Doctor of Technical Sciences. Lived in Moscow. Arrested on 09/21/1972 for creating a home duplicating machine and distributing prohibited literature: “Chronicles of Current Events”, etc. Sentenced by the Moscow City Court on 11/23/1973 under Art. 70 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 4 years and 2 years of exile. He served his term in Dubravlaga, exile in the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. 08/04/1978 sentenced by the Eravninsky District Court under articles 93–2, 147 part 2, 156 part 1, 175 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (“theft”, “fraud”, “deception of customers”, “official forgery”) to 3 years in a penal colony. Rehabilitated on November 21, 1990 by a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR. While in exile in the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, sentenced by the Supreme Court of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on 02/08/1982 under Art. 70 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for 1 year of the penal colony and 5 years of exile. Released in December 1987. Rehabilitated on March 22, 1991 by a ruling of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR. In 1988, he returned to Moscow and went to the USA, where he worked as a NASA researcher, in the scientific laboratories of the US Air Force, and taught at New York University, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Davydov Georgy (Egor) Valentinovich

Genus. in 1941 in Baku, Russian, higher education, graduated from the Leningrad Geological Institute in 1967; geologist. Lived in Leningrad, st. Krasnaya, no. 19, apt. 34. Senior laboratory assistant at the Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Arrested (21) 09/22/1972 by the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Moscow and the Moscow region. Charged under Art. 70 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. According to the verdict of the Leningrad City Court dated July 16, 1973, he was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment in a strict regime correctional labor camp and 2 years of exile. He served his term in Perm camps and Vladimir prison, and exile in the Irkutsk region. Rehabilitated on December 18, 1993. In 1980, under pressure from the KGB, he was forced to emigrate with his family to Germany. He settled in Munich and was hired by Radio Liberty. Died 02/24/2011. He was buried in the Perlacher Forst cemetery.

Zarya S.I.

Student at the Pedagogical Institute of Slavyansk. Resident of Slavyansk, Donetsk region, without specific occupation. Temporarily lived in Moscow. Arrested 09/25/1972(?). Sentenced to 6 months in prison.

Petrov Vyacheslav Valentinovich

Genus. in 1937; secondary education. Before his arrest, he worked as a laborer at the Metal Plant named after the XXII Congress. Lived in Leningrad. During a search of an apartment in Leningrad on September 22, 1972, samizdat literature was confiscated. Arrested 02/05/1973. He was involved in the “case of Davydov and Petrov.” Sentenced in July 1973 to 3 years in a strict regime labor camp followed by exile for 2 years. Died in Leningrad in 1989.

Shaklein Vladimir Andreevich

Genus. in 1937, in Izhevsk, Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian, non-party member, citizen of the USSR. He graduated from the correspondence department of the Perm Polytechnic Institute with a degree in metallurgical engineering (1967). He worked as a senior engineer at the All-Union State Trust for the organization and rationalization of regional power plants and networks of the USSR Ministry of Energy and Electrification. Lived at the address: Moscow, Sivtsev Vrazhek lane, building 44, apt. 10. In 1967 - one of the initiators of the creation of the "Enlightenment Society" and its active participant (production and distribution of literature prohibited in the USSR - political, economic, philosophical, artistic). Arrested on September 28, 1972 on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. Under the threat of arrest of six more people involved in the case, he was forced to apply for a pardon. Pardoned by the decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on November 16, 1973, released from Lefortovo. In 1974-1975 in Kursk, he worked at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. In September 1975, due to lack of housing and work, he left for Estonia. He worked as an engineer at a construction site and at a chemical plant in Kohtla-Jarve. He continued to engage in human rights activities. In 1981-1983, he wrote analytical articles about the failure of the plan for building communism and the predicted economic collapse of the USSR, distributing them in samizdat. In 1986 he returned to Russia, to Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg). In 1991, he was among the initiators of the formation of the independent socio-political association “Renaissance”. In 1994 he was elected coordinator of the Ural Center for Human Rights. In 1996, he was the initiator and founder of the creation of the Interregional Center for Human Rights (Ekaterinburg, for more than 10 years, chairman of its board. In 1997, elected chairman of the Coordination Council of the Union of Human Rights Organizations of the Sverdlovsk Region. He was among the initiators and founders of the All-Russian Movement “For Human Rights” and the formation of its regional departments. In 2000, elected as a member of the Council of the Movement “For Human Rights”, coordinator for the Ural Federal District. Was a member of the Public Supervisory Commission of the Sverdlovsk Region. Died on December 27, 2012.

Yukhnovets Yury Ivanovich

Genus. in 1933. In 1958 (according to other sources - in 1966) he was expelled from the fourth year of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University for his speech at the House of Friendship “What I want to free myself from” (about freedom of speech, press, etc.) . After that, he worked as a turner at the Pravda publishing house, and for the last three years as a loader at the supply base for URSA dining cars in the South-Eastern direction. Lived in Moscow. Arrested on September 27, 1972 for involvement in the publication of the Chronicle of Current Events. He was declared insane in this case, but competent (that is, he cannot bear criminal liability for his actions, but can give testimony). Released 06/06/1973. After his release he worked as a watchman.