Maslov S. Y. (1939-1982), human rights activist

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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 Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1975, he taught at the Institute of Finance and Economics (dismissed in 1980 after a letter in defence of Academician A. D. Sakharov). Since 1968, he was in charge of the unofficial Culture Studies Seminar in General Systems Theory. (Seminar of S. Maslov) which from 1972 gathered in his flat (18 Saltykova-Shchedrina Street, today Kirochnaya Street). He published articles on the problems of philosophy of culture in samizdat (underground press), founded (1979) and was the chief editor of the first samizdat journal of abstracts, Summa. He died in the traffic accident near Moscow in mysterious circumstances. Buried in Serafimovskoe Cemetery.

References: Вершик А. М. Потайной дайджест времен застоя: Памяти С. Ю. Маслова // Звезда. 1991. № 11. С. 165-171; Маслова Е. Ю. О Сергее и Нине Масловых // Сумма за свободную мысль. СПб., 2002. С. 31-37. См. также лит. к ст. Самиздат.

V. E. Dolinin, D. Y. Severyuhin. Maslov Sergey Yurievich
Sakharov Andrey Dmitrievich
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Вершик А.М. Потайной дайджест времен застоя: Памяти С.Ю. Маслова // Звезда, 1991
см. при ст. Самиздат. State University, St. Petersburg
Russian Academy of Sciences
Seraphimovskoe Cemetery
1979