Arseny Roginsky. Photo by Alexander Savin On Monday morning, the chairman of the board of Memorial, the former Soviet Politsyk Arseny Roginsky, died. This was announced at his FB page by the chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Alexander Cherkasov. Roginsky was born on March 30, 1946 in the city of Velsk, Arkhangelsk Region, where his father, an engineer from Leningrad, was serving a link. In 1968 he graduated from the History and Philology Faculty of Tartu University.