The Soviet human rights activist Leonid Poyshch died

In France, at the 78th year of his life, a famous mathematician, publicist, member of the initiative for the protection of human rights in the USSR Leonid Poyshch died. This was reported on her Facebook by Zoya Svetova. “Arina Ginzburg just called. A wonderful dissident Leonid Poyshch died in France. He has been connected with Ukraine all his life,” Svetova wrote.

Leonid Poyshch was born on April 26, 1939 in the city of Naryn in Kyrgyzstan. His father died at the front. Later, the family moved to Odessa. Poyshch graduated from a school with a silver medal, and then the Mechanical and Mathematics Department of Kyiv University. Until 1968, he worked at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

In addition to scientific research, ivy was engaged in human rights activities. He was a link between Moscow and Ukrainian dissidents, transporting the novelties of samizdat from Moscow to Ukraine, for whom he also wrote articles.

In 1968, Poyshch sent a letter to Komsomolskaya Pravda, in which he opposed the inaccurate coverage of the process over Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov. After that, he was fired from the Institute of Cybernetics.

Since 1969, Leonid Poyshch began to cooperate with the "chronicle of current events" and became a member of the initiative group for the protection of human rights in the USSR in the same year.

In 1972, the human rights activist was arrested and accused of anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda in order to undermine the existing system. From the investigative insulator, he was first sent to a psychiatric examination to the Kyiv Regional Hospital, but there he was recognized as sane. Poyshchi was transported to Moscow, where at the Central Institute of Forensic Psychiatry named after Serbian he was twice recognized as sick with sluggish schizophrenia. In the summer of 1973, he was forcibly placed in a special psycho -digitalishes in Dnepropetrovsk.

Andrei Sakharov and other human rights activists spoke in defense of Leonid Poyshch, an active international campaign was deployed. After a while he was released. In 1976, Poyshch left the USSR to France, where he became a foreign representative of the Ukrainian Helsinki group.

In exile, the dissident wrote the book "On the Carnival of History", a monograph on Taras Shevchenko, became the author of a documentary-analytical video "From Little Russia to Ukraine" and a series of articles on the formation and prospects of Ukrainian culture.