Sakharov Andrey Dmitrievich :: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SAINT PETERSBURG

Social Life // Social Organizations and Unions //
Ecological Public Movement ECOLOGICAL PUBLIC MOVEMENT is an independent movement for protection of the environment comprised of ecological public organizations. The Movement emerged from the former Soviet organizations for nature protection and informal youth movements by the end of the 1980s on the wave of increased civil activity of the population.

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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 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).

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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). Graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad State University in 1955. In 1957, he was convicted of establishing an underground group and illegal publishing of Informatsiya bulletin and sentenced to ten years of camps.

City Topography // Urban Network // Avenues //
Piskarevsky Avenue PISKAREVSKY AVENUE between Sverdlovskaya Embankment and the upper Okhta River near Novaya Village. It crosses Polyustrovo, Piskarevka (hence the name), and Ruchi. The section up to the present-day Revolyutsii Freeway was laid in the early 19th century known as Porokhovsky Lane and Kushelevsky Lane from the 1840s to 1871.

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Starovoytova G.V. (1946-1998), ethnographer, politician

STAROVOYTOVA Galina Vasilievna (1946-1998, St. Petersburg), public and political figure, human rights advocate, ethnopsychologist, Ph.D. (History) (1975). She lived in Leningrad from 1948. She studied at Leningrad Institute of Military Mechanics in 1964-66 and moved to the faculty of psychology at Leningrad State University in 1966 to graduate with honours in 1972. As a post-graduate, she studied dispersed ethnic groups in Leningrad and Kazan.

City Topography // Historical Geography // City Districts (2003) //

Vasileostrovsky District

VASILEOSTROVSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg. (Its territory administration is located at 55 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island) Its present-day borders were formed in 1917 (the western part was a separate Sverdlovsky District in 1936-61.) The district covers the territory of Vasilievsky Island (hence, the name) and Dekabristov Island.

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