The writer and human rights activist Nina Katerli died in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, the writer and human rights activist Nina Katerli died. This was announced by the deputy of the Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky. Nina Katerli was 89 years old, the causes of death were not reported.

The writer was born in Leningrad in 1934. She has been involved in the literature since the 1970s, the first book, a collection of stories "Window", was published in 1981. Her works were also published in Samizdat. She wrote in the genre of "fantastic realism", as well as satires on Soviet reality. The co -author of the book of memoirs "What we witnesses were."

Nina Katerley has been engaged in human rights and journalism for many years. She spoke in defense of the defendant in the Stateizer of the Marine Officer Alexander Nikitin (was justified), Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other defendants in the Yukos case, in defense of political prisoners, against the political repressions and authorities of Vladimir Putin. She was a member of the St. Petersburg Pen Club and the Human Rights Council of St. Petersburg.

• Nina Katerli is the grandmother of the director Evgenia Berkovich, who is now in a pre -trial detention center on charges of justifying terrorism in her play "Finist Yasny Falcon." In May, Katerli at home in St. Petersburg after the detention Berkovich was a search.