Background
ORLOV, Yuri was born on August 13, 1924 in Moscow.
human rights activist nuclear physicist
ORLOV, Yuri was born on August 13, 1924 in Moscow.
Moscow University.
Worked in a factory; served in army in World War II. Worked in Yerevan, Armenian S.S.R. Obtained doctorate 1963, became an expert on particle acceleration.
Returned to Moscow 1972. Dismissed from post after pleading on behalf of Andrei Sakharov 1973. Co-founder and Chairman Helsinki Monitoring Group following signing of Helsinki Agreement 1975.
Arrested 1977, on trial 1978 and sentenced to seven years in strict-regime labour camp followed by five years’ exile. Wrote account of prison conditions, smuggled out and printed in Belgian newspaper 1979. Released from labour camp and exiled to Kobyai, nr.
Yakutsk, Siberia 1984. Released October 1986, living in United States of America. USSR Citizenship restored 1990.
Founded the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group in 1976 to monitor Soviet adherence to the 1975 Helsinki human rights accord. Arrested in 1977, was incarcerated in the Siberian Gulag for some 10 years. In 1983, a letter written by the Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky to the Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov asked for the release to Austria, the request was ignored.
Finally released in 1986, stripped of Soviet citizenship and deported to the United States as part of exchange for release of a Soviet spy.
Contributor several research papers and articles on humna rights. Author: (autobiography) Dangerous Thoughts, 1991.
Staff of Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics until dismissed for political reasons 1956.
