Vladimir bukovsky biography

Vladimir Bukovsky passed away on 27 October, 2019.

Vladimir bukovsky biography

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Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky, once dubbed “a hero of almost legendary proportion among the Soviet dissident movement” by the New York Times, died of cardiac arrest in Addenbrookes Hospital, in Cambridge, England at 9:30 PM Greenwich Time on 27 October, 2019.

He was 76. His health had been poor in recent years.

A gifted writer, Bukovsky was revered for his ability to document both the daily insults and grand oppression of Soviet prison life, and to convey with detail the soul-crushing effects of torture on both prisoner and jailer.

Bukovsky's longtime friend and translator, Alyona Kojevnikov, spoke from the hospital: “A very dear friend of many, a brilliant interlocutor, a man of amazing courage and integrity.

God rest his soul. They broke the mould after he was made.”

Novelist Vladimir Nabokov praised him as a "courageous and precious man" in a 1974 letter to the editor of The