Category
page 1Refuseniks

Natan Sharansky
Israeli politician (born 1948)
July Edelstein
Israeli politician

Boris Gulko
Soviet-American chess player

refusenik
thumb|January 10, 1973. Soviet Jewish refusenik demonstration in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the right to emigrate to Israel, before being broken up by Soviet authorities.
thumb|A rare type 2 USSR exit visa. This type of visa was issued to those who received permission to leave the USSR permanently and lost their Soviet citizenship. Many people who wanted to emigrate were unable to receive this kind of exit visa.
thumb|Letter from the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs|MVD to a 76-year-old man from Sverdlovsk refusing him permission to move to Israel due to "knowledge of sta
Pinchas Polonsky
Russian-Israeli religious philosopher (born 1958)
Anna Akhsharumova
chess player
Mark Azbel
Israeli physicist (1932-2020)
Ida Nudel
Soviet dissident
Oxana Yablonskaya
Russian pianist
Benjamin Fain
Israeli physicist (1930–2013)
Dmitry Yablonsky
Russian cellist
Eduard Kuznetsov
Soviet Jewish dissident and Prisoner of Zion
Victor Brailovsky
Israeli mathematician

Naum Meiman
Russian mathematician (1912-2001)
Yakov Alpert
physicist (1911-2010)
Yosef Mendelevitch
Israeli rabbi (born 1947)
Alexander Lerner
Soviet scientist (1913–2004)
Herman Branover
Russian-Israeli physicist (born 1931)
Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair
1970 aircraft hijacking attempt

Inna Meiman-Kitrossky
Soviet philologist (1932–1987)
Valery Panov
Soviet-Israeli dancer and choreographer
David Shrayer-Petrov
Russian-American writer
Felix Kandel
Russian writer