Kuznetsov Sergey Vladimirovich

Kuznetsov Sergey Vladimirovich

Genus. in 1957 in Polevsky, Sverdlovsk region, Russian, higher education - graduated from the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute in 1981, worked as an architect-artist in the Rosmonumentary Art association, from where he was fired in 1987 after the publication of his open letter to Mikhail Gorbachev.
Since 1988, he participated in the democratic movement in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), was a member of the Democratic Union, the International Society of Human Rights. He worked as a correspondent for the independent magazine Glasnost. Arrested on December 11, 1988 in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) for participating in a rally dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Accused of insulting officials of the Sverdlovsk KGB and the party apparatus. He spent more than a year in prison, was twice sent for a psychiatric examination, and was not provided with medical care. Thanks to the intervention of the international community and public organizations within the country, he was released on July 29, 1989. under recognizance not to leave. Subsequently, the case was dismissed by the panel of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court for lack of evidence of a crime.