The Soviet -time dissident Vladimir Poresh died

The dissident of the Soviet era died, a participant in the USSR in the 1970s of the underground Christian seminar Vladimir Poresh. This was announced in Facebook by the literary critic Grigory Benevich.

Poresh was born in Leningrad in 1949. In 1974 he became a member of the Christian seminar organized by Alexander Ogorodnikov on the problems of religious revival in Russia, whose participants studied theology and Christian philosophy. Since 1976, Poresh participated in the publication in the Samizdat of the magazine "Community", in which texts were published on relevant socio-political topics, including information about the persecution of believers by the Soviet authorities.

The KGB pursued the participants of the seminar. In 1979, Poresh was arrested and in 1980 convicted by the court in Leningrad to 5 years in prison and exile under an article on anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda. "The Samizdat report on the process, which has reached the west, testifies to the depths of the Christian feelings of Rush, about his humility and selflessness and the deeply spiritual attitude of Rasha and his friends to trial and conclusion," Benevich writes .

In 1986, Poresh was released, subsequently rehabilitated. He was the chairman of the House of Human Rights in St. Petersburg, taught at the Institute of Philosophy and Theology.