Vladimir BUKOVSKY

Background

Bukovsky, Vladimir was born on December 30, 1942 in Belebey. Son of Konstantin and Nina Bukovsky. Student, Moscow State University, 1961.

Education

Moscow State University, Cambridge University.

Career

Writer and scientist Worked at Moscow Centre of Cybernetics. Arrested for possessing banned literature 1963, confined to Leningrad Psychiatric Prison Hospital for 15 months.

Arrested for demonstration on behalf of Soviet writers 1965, confined for 8 months in psychiatric institutions.

Arrested for civil rights work 1967, on trial September 1967 and sentenced to 3 years’ corrective labour. Arrested for delivering information on psychiatric abuse to the West 1971, on trial 1972 and sentenced to 2 years in prison, 5 in a labour camp and 5 in exile.

After world-wide campaign for his release, was exchanged for Chilean Communist Party leader Luis Corvalan in Zurich December 1976. Research work, Stanford University, California since 1982.

Achievements

• Vladimir Bukovsky has been listed as a notable scientist, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Several human rights organisations, several Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association clubs.

Interests

• The arts, architecture.

Connections

Father:

Konstantin Student

Mother:

Nina Bukovsky. Student