Yuri Orlov
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) was a Soviet-born Russian nuclear physicist and human rights activist. He was born in Moscow.[1] He was a Soviet dissident.[2]
Orlov was the founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group[3] and a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group.[4]
He was declared a prisoner of conscience[5] while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords[6] as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union.[7]
After he was released and deported from the Soviet Union in 1986, Orlov settled in the United States. He became a professor of physics at Cornell University. Orlov died on 27 September 2020 in Ithaca, New York at the age of 96.[8]
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- ↑ Zellick, Graham. The Criminal Trial and the Disruptive Defendant. The Modern Law Review 43 (2) (1980). p. 121–135. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2230.1980.tb01585.x.
- ↑ Human Rights Watch World Report 1990 (1991)Human Rights Watch. p. 296.
- ↑ Information, Reed Business. CERN turns its back on Yuri Orlov. New Scientist 91 (1260) (2 July 1981). p. 4.
- ↑ Garelik, Glenn (21 July 1991). Science and dissidence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1991/07/21/science-and-dissidence/35be1a9f-dbeb-49ce-8f09-3f6720c8223f/.
- ↑ Halperin, Israel. Prisoners of conscience. Physics Today 37 (12) (1984). p. 94. doi:10.1063/1.2916026.
- ↑ Information, Reed Business. Orlov receives red carpet from Western science. New Scientist 112 (1529) (9 October 1986). p. 16.
- ↑ Founder of the Soviet human-rights movement. U.S. News & World Report 101 (16) (10 October 1986). p. 23.
- ↑ The founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Yuri Orlov, dies. Retrieved 2020-09-28.