Background
Senderov, Valery Anatolievich was born on March 19, 1945 in Moscow, Russia. Son of Anatoly Iakovlevich and Zinaida Leonidovna (Senderov) Senderov.
human rights activist mathematician
Senderov, Valery Anatolievich was born on March 19, 1945 in Moscow, Russia. Son of Anatoly Iakovlevich and Zinaida Leonidovna (Senderov) Senderov.
In 1962, he was accepted at the prestigious Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he studied mathematics.
In 1968, just before completing his doctoral dissertation, Senderov was expelled for the dissemination of "philosophical literature", which was a euphemism for anything that was viewed by the censors as being anti-Soviet. He was given the opportunity to complete his degree in 1970. In the 1970s, Senderov taught mathematics at the Second Mathematical School in Moscow.
Toward the end of the decade, he joined the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists, an anticommunist organization headed by Russian emigres, and also the International Society for Human Rights.
In the 1980s, Senderov became one of the leaders of the International Society for Human Rights and one of the founders of the Free Interprofessional Association of Workers, the first labor union in the Soviet Union that sought to be free of government control. In 1982, Senderov was arrested by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) for publishing anticommunist articles in Russian-language newspapers printed abroad, in particular the magazine Posev (Sowing) and the newspaper Russkaya Mysl.
He was sentenced to 7 years of hard labor and a subsequent probationary exile of an additional 5 years. He refused to comply to protest the confiscation of his Bible and the prohibition against studying mathematics.
In 1987, Senderov was released and, in 1988, became the leader of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists in the Soviet Union, holding the first official press conference in this new role in 1988.
Over the course of his life, Senderov authored dozens of political articles in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, as well as a number of mathematical works dealing with functional analysis. He also wrote three books On 12 November 2014, he died at the age of 69 in Moscow.
He was sent to a prison camp for political prisoners near Permanent, where he spent much of his time in solitary confinement in a cold cell on rationed food for his refusal to comply with the rules of the prison camp. During the period of perestroika, the National Alliance took an active part in supporting opposition parties.
National Alliance of Russian Solidarists. International Society for Human Rights. People"s University]
After his arrest, Senderov openly admitted to the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) that he was a member of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists, becoming one of just two openly avowed members of this anticommunist group in the Soviet Union.
At his trial, Senderov stated that he was a member of anticommunist groups and expressed that he would continue to fight against the Soviet regime even after he was freed from incarceration.