Orlov, Yuri, 1924-

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Name (Hebrew)
אורלוב, יעקב, 1924-2020
Name (Latin)
Orlov, Yuri, 1924-
Name (Cyrilic)
Орлов, Юрий, 1924-
Other forms of name
Orlov, I︠U︡. F. (I︠U︡riĭ Fedorovich), 1924-
Orlov, I︠U︡riĭ Fedorovich
Orlov, I︠U︡riĭ Fedorovich, 1924-
Orlov, Jurij Fedorovič, 1924-
Orlov, Yuri
Orlov, Yakov, 1924-2020
Орлов, Юрий Федорович
Date of birth
1924-08-13
Date of death
2020
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 111979691
Wikidata: Q1280936
Library of congress: n 89668194
BGU10: 000222891
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Wikipedia description:

Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords, he was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. Following his release from exile, Orlov was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. and became a professor of physics at Cornell University.

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