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Cemeteries to the Victims of Repression
CEMETERIES FOR THE VICTIMS OF REPRESSION, places of mass burial of the victims of political repressions in Petrograd - Leningrad. In 1918-53, Petrograd -Leningrad VChKa (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, more commonly known as the Cheka)
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Central Regional Studies Bureau
CENTRAL REGIONAL STUDIES BUREAU (CRSB) was a public organization coordinating regional studies in the country. Central Regional Studies Bureau was created in 1922 by the decision of the 1st All-Russian Conference of Scientific Societies for Regional
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Civil Control, Public Association
CIVIL CONTROL (87 Ligovsky Avenue), public human rights organisation. It was initiated in 1992 to provide for the Parliament's and people's control over the activity of secret services
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Gnedich T.G. (1907-1976), writer
GNEDICH Tatyana Grigorievna (1907-1976, town Pushkin) writer, translator, PhD (philology,1941). She was a great-great-grand-nephew of N. I. Gnedich. She lived in Leningrad from 1926
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Iofe V.V. (1938 - 2002), historian of nonconformity, public figure.
IOFE Veniamin Viktorovich (1938-2002, St. Petersburg), public figure, historian. Lived in Leningrad since 1938. Graduated from Leningrad Chemical Engineering Institute (1962)
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Karsavin L.P. (1882 -1952), philosopher, historian
KARSAVIN Lev Platonovich (1882, St. Petersburg -1952), religious philosopher and historian-mediaevalist, Ph.D. (Doctor of History) (1916), Doctor of Theology (1918). The brother of T.P. Karsavina
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Leningrad Popular Front
LENINGRAD POPULAR FRONT was the most numerous (with some 7,000 participants) social and political union of Leningrad of the period of Perestroika. The organization was established at the congress held on 17-18 June 1989
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Manukhin I. I. (1882-1958), doctor
MANUKHIN Ivan Ivanovich (1882-1958), doctor and public figure. He graduated from the Military Medical Academy (1906), and became a doctor of medical sciences (1911)
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Maslov S. Y. (1939-1982), human rights activist
MASLOV Sergey Yurievich (1939, Leningrad - 1982) was a human rights activist, Ph.D. in Mathematics (1972). On graduating from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad State University (1961) he worked in the Leningrad Department of the
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Minuvshee (Past Times), almanac
MINUVSHEE (Past Times), an almanac (volumes 1-25, 1986-1999; edited by V. Е. Alloy,1945-2001, and А. I. Dobkin,1950-1998), was virtually the successor to Pamyat collection shut down in 1982
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Nochlezhka (Shelter), a charitable foundation
NOCHLEZHKA (Shelter) (building No.27 Apraksin Dvor), a charitable foundation initiated in 1990 for making and development of the system for support of the homeless
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Orlovsky E.S. (1929 - 2003), human rights activist
ORLOVSKY Ernest Semenovich (1929, Leningrad - 2003, St. Petersburg) was a human rights activist. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad State University (1952)
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Pamyat (Memory), collection
PAMYAT (Memory), a collection of historic material (issues 1-5, 1976-82), published in New York by Khronika Press Publishing house (first issue) and in Paris by YMKA-Press (2-4 issues) and La Presse Libre (fifth issue) publishing houses
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Perestroika (Restructuring), club
PERESTROIKA (Restructuring), multi-disciplinary club, initiated in 1987 for the support "from below" of the restructuring policy proclaimed by M.S. Gorbachev and the realization of the concept of socialist-type people's self-government
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Pimenov R.I. (1931-1990), mathematician, human rights activist
PIMENOV Revolt Ivanovich (1931-1990), political scientist, human rights activist, Ph.D. (Doctor of Mathematics) (1969). Lived in Leningrad since 1948 (42 Voinova Street, today Shpalernaya Street)
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Psychiatrical Hospital for Peculiar Cases
PSYCHIATRICAL HOSPITAL FOR PECULIAR CASES was created in 1951 as part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was housed in the building of the former women’s prison (9 Arsenalnaya Street)
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Religious Philosophical Seminar
RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL SEMINAR was an informal union of Leningrad creative intelligentsia who were interested in the study of religion and Russian religious philosophy. The seminar was first held in 1974, its organizer and head was philosopher T.M
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Resurrection, circle of
RESURRECTION (the circle of А. А. Meyer) was a religious philosophical circle. It emerged at the end of 1917, and united philosophers, professionals, representatives of creative intelligentsia — members of the Religious Philosophical Society
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Samizdat (Underground Press) (Entry)
SAMIZDAT included literary and artistic, publicistic, philosophical, religious compositions etc. which could not be published in the official press for ideological reasons and were distributed without sanction or control from the state
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"Sharashki"
"SHARASHKI", the name of secret research institutes or design institutions (Special Design Bureau, Technical Bureau, etc.), that functioned in 1931-55 in the system of the Joint State Political Administration Board of the People's Commissariat of
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Shchastny A.M. (1881 - 1918), naval officer
SHCHASTNY Alexey Mikhailovich (1881 - 1918), naval officer, Captain (1917). Graduated from the Naval School (1901) and Mine Officer Classes (1905). Served in the Baltic Fleet, took part in WW I
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Strategy, political centre
STRATEGY (25/14 Seventh Krasnoarmeiskaya Street), humanitarian and political scientific centre, established in 1993 upon the initiative of a group of the deputies of the city council, active workers of democratic parties
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