Category
page 1Soviet human rights activists
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
Yelena Bonner
human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Vladimir Bukovsky
Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
Vasyl Stus
Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938–1985)
Viacheslav Chornovil
Ukrainian activist and politician (1937–1999)
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Soviet-Russian human rights activist (1927–2018)

Natan Sharansky
Israeli politician (born 1948)

Igor Shafarevich
Soviet and Russian mathematician (1923-2017)
Sergei Kovalev
Russian politician (1930–2021)
Levko Lukianenko
Ukrainian politician (1928-2018)
Anatoly Marchenko
Soviet dissident (1938–1986)
Yuri Orlov
Soviet physicist and dissident (1924–2020)
Alexander Esenin-Volpin
Russian-American mathematician (1924-2016)
Semen Hluzman
Ukrainian psychiatrist (1946–2026)
Mykola Rudenko
Ukrainian dissident (1920–2004)
Petro Hryhorenko
Ukrainian soviet dissident, general (1907–1987)
Oles Berdnyk
Ukrainian & Soviet science fiction writer, essayist, founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, dissident and actor (1926-2003)
Alexander Ginzburg
Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident (1936-2002)
Yekaterina Peshkova
Soviet activist (1876-1965)
Valeriy Marchenko
Soviet dissident (1947–1984)
Lev Ponomaryov
Russian politician
Nadiya Svitlychna
Ukrainian dissident (1936–2006)
Alexandr Podrabinek
Russian journalist

Pyotr Yakir
Soviet historian (1923–1982)
Valentin Turchin
Russian mathematician (1931–2010)
Dina Kaminskaya
Soviet lawyer and activist (1919–2006)
Leonid Plyushch
Soviet mathematician and dissident (1939-2015)

Viktor Fainberg
Soviet dissident (1931–2023)
Gunārs Astra
Latvian human rights activist and anti-soviet dissident
Pavel Litvinov
physicist,Soviet dissident
Myroslav Marynovych
Ukrainian dissident
Vasyl Ovsienko
Ukrainian writer, human rights activist, and dissident
Malva Landa
geologist and human rights activist
Sofiya Kalistratova
Russian-Soviet political activist (1907-1989)
Mykola Horbal
Ukrainian dissident
Tatyana Velikanova
Soviet Russian mathematician and human rights activist (1932–2002)
Viktor Nekipelov
Soviet dissident (1928–1989)
Volodymyr
Ukrainian bishop (1925–1995)
Yosyf Zisels
Ukrainian dissident
Sergei Grigoryants
Russian human rights activist (1941–2023)

Naum Meiman
Russian mathematician (1912-2001)
Boris Perchatkin
Christian human rights defender
Valery Chalidze
American publisher (1938–2018)
Mykhailo Horyn
human rights activist

Boris Pustyntsev
Russian human rights activist (1935-2014)
Maya Ulanovskaya
Soviet writer and dissident (1932-2020)
Yuriy Lytvyn
Ukrainian lyrical and prose writer, journalist, Soviet dissident (1934–1984)
Oleksa Tykhyi
Ukrainian linguist, writer, and human rights activist (1927–1984)
Ivan Kandyba
Ukrainian politician
Valery Borshchyov
Russian politician and human rights activist
Mykhailo Melnyk
Ukrainian historian, poet, and human rights activist
Victor Krasin
Russian economist (1929-2017)
Lev Razgon
Soviet writer (1908–1999)
Vladimir Gershuni
Soviet poet (1930-1994)
Yury Samodurov
Soviet human rights activist

Anatoly Koryagin
Soviet psychiatrist and dissident (born 1938)
Avraham Shifrin
Belarusian politician
Kronid Lyubarsky
Soviet dissident