Kuznetsov Eduard Samuilovich
Participant of the "Aircraft Case" (1970)
Born in 1939 in Moscow; Jewish; secondary education. Controller of Mosvodostat, evening student of the philosophy department of Moscow University. Arrested on 05.10.1961. Sentenced by the Moscow City Court on 09.02.1962 under Art. 70, Part 1, 72 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 7 years in a labor camp. Imprisoned in Dubravlag and Vladimir prison. Released on 05.10.1968. Rehabilitated on 29.03.1991 by a resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR. He worked as a methodologist in a public library, lived in the Latvian SSR, in the city of Riga. Arrested on 15.06.1970. Sentenced by the Leningrad City Court on 24.12.1970 under Art. 70 part 2, 15-64-A, 72, 15-93-1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to capital punishment. By the ruling of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR dated 31.12.1970, the capital punishment was replaced with 15 years of imprisonment. Imprisoned in Dubravlag. Released on 28.04.1979 with deprivation of citizenship and expulsion abroad. Died on 22.12.2024 in Israel.
Author of memoirs: Diaries. - Paris: Les Editeurs Rйunis, 1973.
Cases (1)
Documents (42)
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Кузнецов Эдуард Самуилович
1. Article by E. Kuznetsov “On how Sakharov warmed me up” in the magazine “Rodina”, No. 4, 1991, about his hunger strike in the camp in December 1977-January 1978.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Дымшиц Марк Юльевич
1. The article “Operation Wedding”, published in the newspaper “Novosti Nedeli” dated July 11, 1993, containing a letter from M.Yu. Dymshits addressed to Ilya Slosman and I. Slosman’s response to this letter.






Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Штильбанс Виктор Иосифович
1. Article by Shtilbans V.I. “Leafing through the pages of memory” published in the newspaper “Russian Bazaar” No. 9 (201) from 02/24/03/01/2000
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Тунев Владимир Николаевич
1. Interview taken from Tunev V.N. 08/09/1990. (attached file)
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Саранчук Петр Степанович
1. Booklet dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Saranchuk P.S., released by the Ukrainian Republican Party in 1996.


Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Кривошеин Никита Игоревич
1. Afterword by I.A. Krivoshein to the book by N.A. Krivosheina “Four Thirds of Our Life” (Paris, 1984, series “All-Russian Memoir Library”), pp. 275-282.






Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Шумук Данила Лаврентьевич
2. Article by E. Kuznetsov “The oldest political prisoner Danila Lavrentievich Shumuk”, published in the magazine “Continent”, No. 22.







Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Кузнецов Эдуард Самуилович
2. Article by Bader V. “I called Pankin and said that he was being filmed” in the newspaper “Nevskoe Vremya” dated January 16, 1992 about the work of E.S. Kuznetsov. as editor-in-chief of the Israeli Russian-language newspaper Vremya.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Мурженко Алексей Григорьевич
2. Article from the Radio Liberty archive RS 117/85 dated 06.26.1985, authored by Yu Vishnevskaya “New arrest of Alexey Murzhenko, a Ukrainian who served 14 years for intending to hijack a plane in the summer of 1970.”




Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Суперфин Габриэль Гаврилович
2. Anonymous message from samizdat “The trial of Superfin G.”, b.m., b.d. (not earlier than 05/14/1974)




Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Машков Юрий Тимофеевич
3. Article by Vagin E. “In the name of truth” in the magazine “Veche” No. 2 for 1981. about Mashkov Yu.T.


Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Буковский Владимир Константинович
3. Interview with Bukovsky V.K. “Now we all need to temporarily unite...”, taken by S. Skripnikov and published in the newspaper “Literator” No. 40 (45) for [1990]
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Кривошеин Никита Игоревич
3. A note from V. Bogusluvsky about the publication of N.A. Krivosheina’s book. “Four thirds of our life” in the magazine “Twenty Two”, No. 45 for 1985; 2B-29.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Орловский Эрнст Семенович
4. Conversation by E.S. Orlovsky with the head of the department for supervision of the investigation in the security bodies of the Leningrad city prosecutor's office, Katukova, in connection with Orlovsky's complaints about the arbitrariness of transport police workers at the Leningrad Pulkovo airport on June 30, 1976; archive of Radio Liberty AS No. 2611.
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Ситко Леонид Кузьмич
4. Memoirs of Sitko L.K. "Dubrovlag under Khrushchev", published in the journal "New World", No. 10, 1997 (attached file)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Мороз Валентин Яковлевич
5. Article “The homelands of the country’s dissidents can emigrate to the end, Moscow insists”
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Иванов Анатолий Михайлович
5. Article “Repressive measures against two Russian nationalists” dated July 30, 1982 from the archives of Radio Liberty




Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Суперфин Габриэль Гаврилович
6. A copy of the indictment of Superfin G.G. dated 04/15/1992 from the archives of the Prosecutor's Office of the Oryol Region. (attached file)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гель Иван Андреевич
8. A fragment of “Camp Diaries” by E. Kuznetsov, published in the magazine “22” No. 5 for 1979, pp. 24-27, about the split among political prisoners.


Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 2 / Case Максимов Владимир Емельянович
8. Note “The Continent of Vladimir Maksimov” in the newspaper “Izvestia” dated March 28, 1995 about the death of V.E. Maksimov.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Евграфов Николай Андреевич
8. Biographical information on Evgrafova N.A. with an addition in the form of an extract from the verdict



Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Козовой Вадим Маркович
9. Note “The telephones of Muscovites to whom E. Kuznetsov called have been disconnected” in the Israeli newspaper “Our Country” dated May 28, 1979.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Хямяляйнен Эдуард Матвеевич
9. Article by Hämäläinen E.M. “The airliner ran as if by fate” in the newspaper “Alarm of the North-West” No. 13(25) dated March 29, 1991 about “Leningrad Aircraft Business”, 1970.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Соколов Валентин Петрович (Валентин Зэка)
10. Poems by Valentin Z/K (Sokolov) of the late 50s - early 60s with a biographical “Reference for the future “Camp Encyclopedia”, published in the magazine “Continent” No. 41, 1984.




Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Садовников Владимир Васильевич
10. Memoirs of Sadovnikov V.V. “Thaw” in the zone”, published in the magazine “New World” No. 7, 1996.








Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Орловский Эрнст Семенович
13. Article by Orlovsky E.S. “A year after the XXVII Congress of the CPSU: There are reasons for optimism, but there are also many reasons for skepticism,” written in April 1987; archive of Radio Liberty AS No. 5988.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Поленов Виктор Семенович
14. Memoirs of Polenov V.S., 1985
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Подрабинек Александр Пинхосович
16. The article “Soviet dissidents against the installation of the Wall of Sorrow memorial” on the Radio Liberty website, published on October 30, 2017, and a letter from former political prisoners and participants in the democratic movement in the USSR about the need for a monument to the victims of political repression, but only when there are no political prisoners left in the country. (attached file)
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Иванов Анатолий Михайлович
17_1. Interview with Ivanov (Skuratov) A.M., recorded by Morgacheva T.V. in August 1990





Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Осипов Владимир Николаевич
20. Chapter “Russian patriot Vladimir Osipov” from the book by Heifetz M. “Russia and Reality”, magazine “Continent”, No. 27 for 1981, pp. 159-214., No. 28, pp. 134-179.
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Иванов Анатолий Михайлович
21. Staya Ivanova A. “Stranger Among Our Own,” published in the newspaper Panorama No. 4 (34) for 08.1992.




Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Осипов Владимир Николаевич
22. Editorial article “Response from Russia to the slander of “Continent”” in the almanac “Veche” No. 18, 1982.



Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Соколов Валентин Петрович (Валентин Зэка)
24. Memoirs of V. Sadovnikov “Valentin Zeka” about his acquaintance with V.P. Sokolov. in places of deprivation of liberty, dated 10/22/1991.






Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Осипов Владимир Николаевич
25. Letter from Osipov V.N. dated 05/24/1985 Iofe V.V. about his life in Tarusa.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гинзбург Александр Ильич
28. Article by Rabotnova V. “Don’t call me master” in the newspaper “Nevskoe Vremya” dated 10/26/1994. about a conversation with A.I. Ginzburg

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гинзбург Александр Ильич
34. Biographical information on Ginzurg A.I. with a description of his social activities, compiled [before 2002]






Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Мельников (Белоусов) Леонид Иванович
36. Letter from Shatravka V.P. dated June 14, 1988 to Melnikov L.I. about his preparations in the USA on the call of Shatravka’s son A.I.


Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Осипов Владимир Николаевич
40. Article by Osipov V.N. “To Sholokhov”, published in the magazine “Posev” for 1978. and reprinted by the newspaper “Alarm of the North-West” dated March 29, 1991, p.5.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гамсахурдия Звиад Константинович
52. Transcript of correspondence from Paris dated 05/18/1978 with the participation of Radio Liberty correspondent S. Mirsky about the trials in Moscow and Tbilisi of Z. Gamsakhurdia, M. Kostava and E. Kuznetsov.


Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Сахаров Андрей Дмитриевич
64. Article by Burtin Yu. “The Great Russian Intellectual”; article by Gefter M. Ya. “The curtain has risen”; article by Timofeev L.M. “With anxiety and hope”, dedicated to the memory of A.D. Sakharov; Nobel lecture by Sakharov A.D.; open letter from Sakharov A.D. Brezhnev L.I., UN Secretary General and heads of state - permanent members of the Security Council dated July 27, 1980 against the war in Afghanistan, published in the magazine “New World” No. 1 for 1990, pp. 3-16.
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Сахаров Андрей Дмитриевич
75. Excerpts from a tape recording of the meeting of the All-Union Historical and Educational Society “Memorial” dated January 22, 1990 in Moscow, dedicated to the memory of A.D. Sakharov, published under the title “When leaving, leaving the light is more than staying…” in the newspaper “Smena” No. 116 (19566) dated 05/20/1990.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Сахаров Андрей Дмитриевич
87. Article by E. Kuznetsov “About how Sakharov warmed me up” in the magazine “Rodina” No. 4 for 1991 about the arrival of A.D. Sakharov in Dubrovlag. with Bonner E.G. in 1977
