Vakhtin Boris Borisovich (junior)

Definition: Russian Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, philosopher, translator, orientalist-sinologist. Senior researcher at the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Years of life: 1930-1981
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Genus. in 1930. In 1954 he graduated from the Chinese department of the Oriental Faculty of Leningrad State University, in 1957 - graduate school. Since 1952, he worked at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Asian Peoples of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where in 1962-1964. headed the Far Eastern office.
In the 1950s he began writing prose. In 1964, together with Vladimir Maramzin, Igor Efimov and Vladimir Gubin, he created the literary group “Citizens”. The collection of the same name they compiled, to which Vakhtin wrote a preface, was offered to the publishing house “Soviet Writer,” but after long discussions, the publishing house rejected it, and the collection was distributed in samizdat. Since 1977, his stories and novellas have been published in the emigrant magazines “Time and We” and “Echo”. In 1979, he took part in the uncensored almanac “Metropol” with the satirical story “Dublenka”.
On January 18, 1968, together with his brother, he wrote a statement to the Supreme Court of the USSR (copy to the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR) demanding a review of the court cases of Sinyavsky and Daniel, Galanskov, Ginzburg, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova, Bukovsky, Ogurtsov, etc.

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Documents (4)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Вахтин Борис Борисович (младший)
1. Photo by Vakhtin B.B.
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотокопия
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Бродский Иосиф Александрович
75. Article by Vigdorova F. “Trial” in the magazine “Ogonyok” No. 49 for 1988, about the trial of Brodsky, the notes that Vigdorova made, the speech of Brodsky’s defender.
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Бродский Иосиф Александрович
87. A copy of the letter to the executive secretary of the Leningrad branch of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR A.A. Prokofiev. 03/19/1964 from a member of the Writers' Union E.G. Etkind in defense of Brodsky I. and against publications about his testimony in court on November 18, 1964.