Popovsky Mark Alexandrovich

Definition: Russian writer, journalist, human rights activist, dissident
Years of life: 1922-2004
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Genus. in 1922 Studied at the Military Medical Academy. He was a medic at the front. In 1952 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Lived in Moscow.
In the USSR (before emigration), 18 books by Mark Popovsky were published, dedicated mainly to scientists. Author of artistic biographies of scientists Vavilov, Khavkin and others; historical novels, essays. Member of the Writers' Union (1961-1977), the Union of Journalists (1957-1977) of the USSR.
In the 1970s was a dissident, collected a Samizdat library, signed letters of protest. In 1977, he supplied Western newspapers and radio stations with information about life in the USSR, and was taken into operational development by the KGB. He emigrated in 1977, later settling in the United States. He collaborated with the radio station “Svoboda”, the newspapers “New Russian Word”, “Panorama”, and literary magazines. One of the founders of the Russian Writers Club of New York.
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