Platonov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich

Definition: Africanist, researcher of cultural history of Ethiopia
Years of life: 1941-2012
Reproduction methods:
Genus. in 1941 He graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Leningrad State University and became a teacher (assistant) in the Department of African Studies. Since November 1964 - member of the secret organization VSKHSON. After the failure of the organization, in February 1967. arrested. Charged under Art. 70, part 1, and 72 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, the charge was the distribution of photocopies of texts by N.A. Berdyaev and trans. from English works by M. Djilas. Sentenced by the Collegium of the Leningrad City Court on 03/14/04/05/1968 to 7 years in a strict regime penal colony. He served time in a political camp in Mordovia. In 1969-71 together with fellow businessman L.I. Borodin and other prisoners (including Y. Galanskov, A. Ginzburg, Y. Daniel) participated in hunger strikes and other protests against the cruelties of the camp administration. Another year of administrative exile was added to his camp sentence. After returning to Leningrad in 1984, he worked as a leading librarian in the department of literature in the languages ​​of Asian and African countries of the State Public Library/RNL, and continued his scientific work in his specialty.
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Доп. инф. издания: Люди и судьбы. Биобиблиографический словарь востоковедов - жертв политического террора в советский период (1917-1991), СПб, 2003

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Documents (8)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Платонов Вячеслав Михайлович
2. Photo by V.M. Platonov, 1989, near Volkhov.
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотокопия
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Сенин Олег Михайлович
2. Transcript of an interview with O.M. Senin. dated 08/11/1990, recording by T.V. Morgacheva (attached file)
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гинзбург Александр Ильич
24. Articles by Gokhman M. "Clean work. KGB investigator protects legality and law and order in the Moscow City Council" and Ginzburg Arina "Investigator Saushkin, Spider and Janus. It's time to talk about this" in the newspaper "Russkaya Mysl" No. 3885 of 28.06.1991 about KGB investigator Saushkin E.M., who in 1977 led the case of Ginzurg A.I., and in 1990 became a deputy of the Moscow City Council.