Lev Ponomaryov
| Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomaryov | |
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Lev Ponomaryov, at a rally at the Ministry of Transport in Moscow on 15 March 2011
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| Native name | Лев Александрович Пономарёв |
| Born |
September 2, 1941 Tomsk, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship |
 Soviet Union (1941–1991) →  Russian Federation (1991–present) |
| Alma mater | the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
| Occupation | physicist, mathematician, human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group and Democratic Russia |
Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomaryov (Russian: Лев Алекса́ндрович Пономарёв, September 2, 1941, Tomsk) is a Russian political and civil activist. He is an executive director of the all-Russian movement "For Human Rights." He is a member of the Federal Political Council of Solidarnost, and was deputy to the State Duma in its first period.
Ponomaryov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MFTI) in 1965 and from the doctorate program of the same institute in 1968, becoming a doctor of physics and mathematics. He worked in the Theoretical and Experimental Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and simultaneously taught at MFTI in the general physics department.
In 1988, Ponomaryov helped create the human rights organization Memorial.
In 1989, Ponomaryov filled the place of academic Andrei Sakharov in the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union after he died suddenly from a heart attack. Ponomaryov took part in the Coordination Council of Moscow Union of Electors and in the initiative group for the creation of the Civil Action Committee.
In 1990, he was elected a People's Deputy of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. From 1990 to 1993, Lev Ponomaryov was a People's Deputy of the Russian Federation; a member of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation; a member of the Committee on Mass Media relating to public organizations, mass movement of citizen and public opinion research; and a member of the political movement Democratic Russia and the deputies group Army Reform (Reforma armii).
In the autumn of 1991, he presided over the parliamentary commission for investigation of GKChP activities and the KGB’s role in the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.
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