Larisa Bogoraz
| Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz | |
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| Native name | Лариса Иосифовна Богораз |
| Born |
Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz-Brukhman August 8, 1926 Kharkiv, Soviet Union |
| Died | April 6, 2004 (aged 77) Moscow, the Russian Federation |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union (1926–1991) Russian Federation (1991–2004) |
| Alma mater | University of Kharkiv |
| Occupation | linguist |
| Known for | human rights activism with participation in the Moscow Helsinki Group and A Chronicle of Current Events |
| Movement | dissident movement in the Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Yuli Daniel, Anatoly Marchenko |
| Children | Alexander Daniel |
Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz (Russian: Лари́са Ио́сифовна Богора́з(-Брухман), full name: Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz-Brukhman, Bogoraz was her father's last name, Brukhman her mother's, August 8, 1929, Kharkiv – April 6, 2004, Moscow) was a dissident in the Soviet Union.
Born in Kharkiv, at the time capital of the Ukrainian SSR, to a family of Communist Party bureaucrats, she graduated as a linguist from the University of Kharkiv and in 1950, married her first husband, Yuli Daniel, a writer. Together, they moved to Moscow.
Her marriage to Daniel would ultimately lead to her becoming involved in activism. In 1965, Daniel and a friend of his, Andrei Sinyavsky, were arrested for a number of writings that they had had published overseas under pseudonyms (see Sinyavsky-Daniel trial). The trial of the two men was the beginning of a crackdown on dissent under General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. They were both sent to terms in forced labor camps. After their detention, Bogoraz wrote to Brezhnev in protest, despite knowing that such an act could land her in prison.
Bogoraz became well known when, on August 25, 1968, she organized seven people to protest in Red Square against the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia at the 1968 Red Square demonstration, together with Pavel Litvinov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Vadim Delaunay and other protesters. As all participants, Bogoraz was arrested, tried and sentenced to four years of exile in Siberia, which she spent in a woodworking plant.
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