Maltsev Yuri Vladimirovich

Definition: Writer, translator, member of the Initiative Group for the Protection of Human Rights in the USSR
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Genus. in 1932 in Rostov-on-Don. In 1955 Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad State University. In the 1960s moved to Moscow, taught Italian at the history department of Moscow State University, and worked as a translator for various Italian delegations. Tried unsuccessfully to obtain permission to travel to Italy. On December 15, 1964, he submitted an application to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to renounce Soviet citizenship and intend to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Dismissed from Moscow State University. In 1968, he signed appeals in defense of Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov, protested against the conviction of the participants in the “Demonstration of the Seven” on Red Square, and published “Appeals from Yu.V.” in a number of foreign newspapers. Maltsev to the UN Secretary General Mr. U Thant.” In May 1969, he participated in the work of the “Initiative Group for the Protection of Human Rights in the USSR.” He worked as a postman at a telegraph office.
On October 17, 1969, he received a summons from the district military registration and enlistment office with a referral to a medical commission to determine fitness for military service, and was fraudulently taken to the psychiatric hospital named after. Kashchenko and placed in the 5th “violent” department.
On November 18, 1969, he was discharged from the hospital and registered at the regional psychiatric clinic. During 1972–1973 repeatedly summoned to the KGB for interrogation in the “Chronicles of Current Events” case. In April 1974 he emigrated to Italy. He taught Russian language and literature at the universities of Parma and Milan. He collaborated in the newspapers “New Russian Word”, “Russian Thought”, in the magazines “Grani” and “Continent”.
In 1976 he published the monograph “Free Russian Literature” (Posev Publishing House).
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Topics: Initiative group for the protection of human rights in the USSR (1969-1976)

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