Woodka Yuri Veniaminovich (pseudonym Lev Borin)
Student of the Ryazan Radio Engineering Institute (RRTI), turner at the Ryazselmash plant, leader of the youth organization "Marxist party of a new type", political prisoner
10/30/1947 b. A native of Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukrainian SSR. Jew. Lived in Ryazan, st. 1st Line, 16. Turner of the Ryazselmash plant. 5th year student of the correspondence department of the Ryazan Radio Engineering Institute (RRTI). In 1967-1969. in Ryazan, he was part of a company of students from the Radio Engineering Institute who formed an illegal socialist group - sometimes referred to as a “Marxist party of a new type.” He wrote (under the pseudonym L. Borin) the brochure “The Decline of Capital” - the group’s program document and a number of other works in Russian, Ukrainian and Hebrew. Arrested “for anti-Soviet agitation” by the Ryazan KGB on July 30, 1969. Before the trial, he was kept in the Ryazan prison (SIZO-1) on Pervomaisky Avenue. Sentenced by the Ryazan Regional Court on February 19, 1970 under Article 70 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, 72 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 7 years in prison in a maximum security colony (Prosecutor Dubtsov, Judge Matveev). Fellow traders: Grilyus Shimon (Simonas) Aronovich ; Frolov (Zaidenfeld) Oleg Ilyich ; Woodka Valery Veniaminovich ; Martimonov Evgeniy Yakovleevich ; Zaslavsky Semyon Mikhailovich . The bulletin of the human rights movement of the USSR "Chronicle of Current Events" wrote about the Ryazan trial in NN 12, 14. The case of the "Vudka Group" and his very name "Yuri Woodka" for many years became a tool of propaganda and intimidation, as well as anti-Semitic insinuations for the security officers in Ryazan. However, among the Ryazan student community and in the circles of the local technical and creative intelligentsia of the 1970s and early 1980s, the “Woodka Case” was a kind of symbol of the possibility of resistance to the Soviet regime. He served his sentence in Dubravlaga, Perm camps, and in prison No. 2 in Vladimir. In the camps and in prison, he was an active participant in human rights actions of prisoners, was repeatedly placed in the camp in a punishment cell and transferred to the PKT, in prison - to a punishment cell. On July 13, 1972, he was transferred from ITK-3 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On April 28, 1973, he was transferred to prison regime in prison No. 2 in Vladimir for 3 years. In May 1975 - in the punishment cell of the Chistopol prison. On July 9, 1976, 3 weeks before the end of his term of imprisonment, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Perm, from there he was transferred to Dnepropetrovsk prison. Soon after his liberation, he emigrated to Israel, lived in a kibbutz, and became a famous religious publicist (Aryeh Woodka) and translator of poetry. He wrote a book of memoirs "Moscow" (Israel, Moriah, 1984), a book "Ariadne's Thread" (Israel, Shofar, 1986), a number of articles and poems. In 1992, he was rehabilitated at the request of the Memorial Society.
Documents (7)
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Резников Алексей Сергеевич
1. Biographical information on Reznikov A.S., compiled [after 1978], in Ukrainian.
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Сергиенко Александр Федорович
1. Biographical information on Sergienko A.F., in Ukrainian.
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Сапеляк (Сапелюк) Степан Евстахович
1. Biographical information on Sapelyak S.E., in Ukrainian.
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Ковалев Сергей Адамович
1. Statement by A.D. Sakharov from 12/28/1974 in defense of the arrested S.A. Kovalev and letter 174 “In defense of Sergei Kovalev”, written after the sentencing of Kovalev on 12/12/1975.
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)
missing from. 24
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Федоренко Василий Петрович
3. Biographical information on Fedorenko V.P. (in Ukrainian), no dates.
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Сверстюк Евгений Александрович
4. Biographical information on Sverstyuk E.A., with bibliographic data, in Ukrainian.
