Alexander Yesenin-Wolpin died

In the USA, in the 92nd year of his life, one of the leaders of the human rights movement in the USSR, poet, philosopher, mathematician Alexander Yesenin-Volpin died. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the friends of the deceased.

Yesenin-Wolpin was born in 1924. His father, poet Sergei Yesenin, committed suicide when the boy was a year.

Yesenin-Wolpin graduated with honors from the Mechanical and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University and the graduate school of the Research Institute of Mathematics at Moscow State University.

In 1949, for the "anti-Soviet poetry" Yesenin-Wolpin was placed for forced treatment in the Leningrad special psycho-digitalishes. In September 1950, he was sent to the Karaganda region as a "socially dangerous element" for a period of five years. In 1953, after the death of Joseph Stalin, Yesenin-Volpin, they rehabilitated.

In 1959, Yesenika-Volpin was again placed in a special psycho-digit, where he spent about two years.

In the early 1960s, Yesenin-Wolpin was the first of the Soviet dissidents put forward the idea of ​​the possibility and need to protect human rights by strictly following Soviet laws and the requirements of compliance with these laws from the authorities. This rule has become one of the fundamental concepts of human rights movement.

In 1965, Yesenin-Wolpin became the organizer of a "rally of publicity", the first public demonstration of protest in the post-war USSR. The protesters demanded the publicity of the court over Andrei Sinyavsky and Julius Daniel and respect for the Constitution.

In 1968, Yesenin-Volpin was again placed in a psychiatric hospital. After liberation in 1970, he joined the Human Rights Committee in the USSR, collaborating with Yuri Orlov, Andrei Sakharov and other human rights activists. In 1972, under pressure from the authorities, he emigrated to the United States.

Yesenin -Wolpin is the author of a number of fundamental works in the field of mathematical logic. He also wrote a number of articles devoted to the theoretical aspects of the problem of legislative support for human rights in the USSR and law enforcement practice in this area.