The human rights activist, Soviet dissident Leonid Poyshch died

Leonid Poyshch was a member of the initiative group for the protection of human rights in the USSR. In 1972, he was arrested on charges of anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda. In 1976 he left the USSR

In France, at the age of 77, a mathematician, publicist, participant in the human rights movement in the USSR, Leonid Poyshch, died.

This was reported by Radio Liberty by Arina Ginzburg - the widow of Alexander Ginzburg.

Leonid Poyshch was born in Kyrgyzstan in 1938, later his family moved to Ukraine, where he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Kiev University. Actively engaged in human rights activities, was a link between Moscow and Ukrainian dissidents, published in Samizdat. In 1964, after the resignation of Nikita Khrushchev, he wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the CPSU with proposals on the democratization of the Soviet system.

After Leonid Poyshch sent a letter with a sharp protest against the inaccurate coverage of the process over Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov to the Komsomol Truth in 1968, he was fired from the Cybernetics Institute with the Wolf Ticket. A year later, he became a member of the initiative group to protect human rights in the USSR.

In 1972, Leonid Poyshch was arrested on charges of anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda in order to undermine the existing system and placed in a special psychiatric hospital in Dnepropetrovsk .

As a result of the international campaign, Leonid Poyshch was released and left the USSR in 1976. He lived in France, since 1977 he was a foreign representative of the Ukrainian Helsinki group. The author of the book "On the Carnival of History", monographs about Taras Shevchenko, a documentary and analytical video "From Little Russia to Ukraine".