Gridin Vladimir Mikhailovich

Born in 1924 in Odessa; Russian; higher education, Literary Institute named after. Gorky, Odessa Conservatory. Non-partisan. Participant of the Second World War. Lived in Odessa, worked as a journalist. Then as a proofreader at the Machine-Building Plant. Kalinina. Arrested on November 20, 1958. Sentenced by the Odessa Regional Court on February 2, 1959 under Article: 54-10 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR to 3 years in labor camp. He served his sentence in Dubravlaga (Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), and on a camp assignment of l/o N 18 Dubravlaga in the Ryazan region. Released on November 20, 1961. After his release, he worked as a bookseller and merchandiser at the Odessa Regional Book Trade. Rehabilitated on December 8, 1989 by the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1996 , a book of memoirs by Vladimir Gridin, “We Who Were Not...” was published in Odessa. He died in Odessa in 2006.