The human rights activist and dissident Joseph Dyadkin died

Human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinsky group, one of the founders of the Tver Memorial, Joseph Dyadkin, died in Tver at the 87th year of his life. As reported on the website of the ICG, farewell and funeral will be held on March 11.

Dyadkin was born in 1928 in the city of Belaya Church of the Kyiv region, graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, author of more than 60 scientific works.

In 1976, through Samizdat, he released the pamphlet "Statistics", in which he appreciated the damage caused by the demography of the USSR by Stalinist repressions, 15 million people.

In March 1980, Dyadkin was detained in Crimea, along the way from Yevpatoria to Simferopol. Before that, he visited Yalta, where, at the request of Moscow human rights activists, he met with a group of Crimean Tatars, who were persecuted by the authorities. All records related to this meeting were selected from him. In April of the same year, a search was conducted at his house, and the dissident himself was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison under the political part 1 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR ("knowingly false fabrications that defeat the Soviet state and social systems").

Since 1991, Dyadkin actively participated in the creation and work of the Tver branch of the Historical and Educational Society "Memorial". In recent years, he has been seriously ill.