Category
page 1Soviet prisoners and detainees
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)

Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet (1940-1996)
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)

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

Natan Sharansky
Israeli politician (born 1948)

Paul Ariste
Estonian linguist (1905-1990)

Andrei Sinyavsky
Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher (1925–1997)
Sergei Kovalev
Russian politician (1930–2021)
Ivan Maisky
Soviet diplomat (1884-1975)
Yuli Daniel
Soviet writer and poet (1925-1988)
Yuri Orlov
Soviet physicist and dissident (1924–2020)
Aksel Berg
Soviet scientist and admiral (1893-1979)
Nikolai Stepulov
Estonian boxer (1913–1968)
Semen Hluzman
Ukrainian psychiatrist (1946–2026)
Gleb Pavlovsky
Russian political scientist (1951–2023)
Mykola Rudenko
Ukrainian dissident (1920–2004)
Petro Hryhorenko
Ukrainian soviet dissident, general (1907–1987)
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev
Russian astronomer/astrophysicist (1908–1983)
Yury Dombrovsky
Soviet writer (1909-1978)
Aleksei Dikiy
Russian and Soviet actor and theatre director (1889–1955)
Igor Guberman
Israeli writer
Ivan Bahrianyi
Ukrainian writer and politician (1906–1963)
Iryna Kalynets
poet, writer, and Ukrainian politician (1940-2012)
Daniil Andreyev
Russian writer, poet, mystic (1906–1959)
Valeriy Marchenko
Soviet dissident (1947–1984)
Yuz Aleshkovsky
Soviet and Russian writer, poet, and playwright (1929—2022)
Osip Braz
Russian artist (1873-1936)
Arseny Roginsky
Russian historian, Soviet dissident and Memorial founder (1946-2017)
Mihail Chemiakin
Russian artist (born 1943)
Lagle Parek
Estonian politician and freedom fighter (born 1941)
Alexandr Podrabinek
Russian journalist

Anna Barkova
Soviet writer (1901–1976)
Yurii Shukhevych
Ukrainian activist (1933–2022)
Nigol Andresen
Estonian writer and politician (1899-1985)
Giennadij Kuprijanow
Soviet politician (1905–1979)
Grigory Pomerants
Russian philosopher, cultural theorist, and Soviet dissident (1918–2013)

Grigory Mairanovsky
Soviet biochemist who started NKVD poison study program (1899–1964)
Shmuel Halkin
Soviet poet (1897-1960)
Boris Chichibabin
Soviet writer (1923-1994)
Don Askarian
International producer/film director/screenwriter of Armenian origin (1949-2018)
Nikolay Likhachyov
Russian art historian (1862–1936)
Tatyana Velikanova
Soviet Russian mathematician and human rights activist (1932–2002)
Rahim Gaziyev
Azerbaijani politician and political prisoner (born 1943)
Hans Kruus
Estonian historian and politician (1891-1976)
Pavel Litvinov
physicist,Soviet dissident
Viktor Nekipelov
Soviet dissident (1928–1989)
Sergei Grigoryants
Russian human rights activist (1941–2023)
Andrei Nikolaevich Mironov
Soviet political prisoner, human rights activist, reporter, fixer, interpreter (1954-2014)
Boris Fomin
Russian composer (1900–1948)
Balys Gajauskas
Lithuanian politician (1926-2017)

Boris Pustyntsev
Russian human rights activist (1935-2014)
Nikolai Getman
Russian artist (1917-2004)
Ekaterina Kalinina
wife of Soviet politician Mikhail Kalinin (1882-1960)
Teodors Spāde
Latvian marine officer (1891–1970)
Leonid Borodin
Russian-Soviet novelist and journalist
Victor Krasin
Russian economist (1929-2017)
Victor Herman
American prisoner in Siberia (1915-1985)
Mihai Dolgan
Moldovan musician (1942–2008)
Eli Shechtman
Israeli writer (1908–1996)