Tsurkov Arkady Samsonovich
Born 03/15/1958 in Leningrad; Jew. In 1975 he graduated from school No. 121. Member of the underground student organization "Left Opposition", author of articles in the samizdat magazine "Perspective". In 1977 he entered Tartu State University at the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1978 he transferred to Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after. Herzen, math.-physics. faculty. Arrested 10/31/1978. Sentenced by the Leningrad City Court on 04/06/1979 under Article 70 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 5 years in a camp and 2 years in exile. He served his sentence in the Perm camps and Chistopol prison. Arrested in prison for the second time at the end of 1983 for continuing his human rights activities while in prison. Sentenced on March 16, 1984 by the Kirovsky District Court of Kazan under Part 2 of Art. 193 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 2 years of imprisonment with the addition of unserved two years of exile for the first sentence. Disabled person (heart disease, thrombophlebitis, severe myopia). Served exile in the village. Troitsko-Pechorsk (Komi ASSR). On 02/12/1987 he was pardoned by the Decree of the PVS of the USSR and released from serving exile. 05/15/1987 registered in Leningrad. Rehabilitated on August 12, 1992 by the conclusion of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. Emigrated to Israel.
Cases (2)
Documents (22)
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case * Цурков Аркадий Самсонович *
1. Photo b/w of A.S. Tsurkov playing chess, gray. 1970s

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Демин Вячеслав Константинович
1. Article by Demin V.K. “Eternal Revolutionaries”, published in the publication “Our Contemporary” No. 9, 1990.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Скобов Александр Валерьевич
1. Curriculum vitae No. 3B-31 about A.V. Skobov’s p/z (no seat, not earlier than August 1984). Archive of Radio Liberty [AS No. 5393].
5 sheets, photocopy of typescript

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Цуркова Ирина Залмановна
1. Record No. 1 (incomplete) of the process of Tsurkova I.Z. in the Leningrad City Court on March 11 and 15, 1983 (from the Radio Liberty Archive, No. 5086). (attached file)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case * Цурков Аркадий Самсонович *
2. Copy of a photograph b/w of A.S. Tsurkov playing chess (the portrait is turned upside down), gray. 1970s

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Цуркова Ирина Залмановна
2. Record No. 2 (incomplete) of the process of Tsurkova I.Z. in the Leningrad City Court on March 11 and 15, 1983 (from the Radio Liberty Archive, No. 5087). (attached file)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case * Цурков Аркадий Самсонович *
3. Photo of an unknown person in a quilted jacket and felt boots (camp photo?)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Скобов Александр Валерьевич
4. Interview of Senderov V. with Skobov A.V., entitled “Interview with a Marxist”, “Posev” No. 3, 1988.
5 sheets, newspaper clipping.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Троицкий Зиновий Анатольевич
5. New Year's card addressed to Iofe V.V., written by L.P. Troitskaya. Perm, 12/24/1984 (dated by postmark).


Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Скобов Александр Валерьевич
5. The article “Consider me a prisoner of war” or the path out of the revolution”, published in the newspaper “Smena” No. 184[19634] dated 08/11/1990.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case * Цурков Аркадий Самсонович *
7. Photo of Tsurkov A.S. with his wife Tsurkova (Lopotukhina) I.Z.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case * Цурков Аркадий Самсонович *
8. Photo by Tsurkov A.S. with two girls of three years old, made in the studio in [1989]

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Троицкий Зиновий Анатольевич
8. New Year's card addressed to Iofe V.V., written by L.P. Troitskaya. Perm, 1987 (dated according to content).


Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Скобов Александр Валерьевич
8. Interview with A.V. Skobov, tape No. 3, recording dated 07/04/1991. (attached pdf file)
16 sheets, typescript

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case * Цурков Аркадий Самсонович *
9. Color photo of Tsurkov A.S. with his wife in Israel, on the back there is an inscription: “We are in Jerusalem a month before David’s birth.”


Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Скобов Александр Валерьевич
9. Interview with Skobov A.V., cassette No. 4, recording dated 07/04/1991. (attached pdf file)
20 sheets, typescript

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case * Цурков Аркадий Самсонович *
10. Brief biographical information on A.S. Tsurkov, arrested on October 31, 1978 in the “Left Opposition” case, sentenced to 5 years in camps and 2 years in exile.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Скобов Александр Валерьевич
10. Interview with Skobov A.V., cassette No. 5, recording dated 08/02/1991. (attached pdf file)
21 sheets, typescript.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Скобов Александр Валерьевич
11. Article-interview with Skobov A.V. “I am against any violence”, “Evening Petersburg”, 12/09/1994.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Миркин Борис Савельевич
11. Article by Dolinin V. "Leningrad. KGB. 80s" in the newspaper "Nevsky Courier" No. 14 for 1990 about political persecution in Leningrad in the 1980s.
