Lily Golden

Lily Golden
Лия Оливеровна Голден
Golden in 2005
Born	Liya Oliverovna Golden (1934-07-18)18 July 1934 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Died	6 December 2010(2010-12-06) (aged 76) Moscow, Russia
Occupations	Historian civil rights activist writer
Spouses	Abdullah Kassim Hanga ​ ​ (m. 1960; died 1968)​ Boris Yagovlev
Children	Elena Khanga
Father	Oliver Golden
Academic background
Alma mater	State Conservatory of Uzbekistan [ru] Moscow State University
Academic work
Discipline	Black studies
Institutions	Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for African Studies [ru] Chicago State University

Liya Oliverovna Golden (18 July 1934 – 6 December 2010) was a Soviet and Russian historian and civil rights advocate. A national tennis champion and pianist during her youth, she worked at the Institute for African Studies [ru] and did research on Black studies. After moving to the United States after Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, she became a scholar-in-residence at Chicago State University and an advocate for racial equality.