Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya | |
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| Наталья Евгеньевна Горбаневская | |
 Gorbanevskaya at the balcony of the library "Russian abroad" (Русское Зарубежье), Moscow, 19 September 2005 | |
| Born | 26 May 1936 |
| Died | 29 November 2013 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union (formerly) and Poland |
| Alma mater | Leningrad University |
| Occupation(s) | Russian poet, translator of Polish literature, civil rights activist |
| Known for | her participation in Soviet dissident movement, the 1968 Red Square demonstration, the editing of A Chronicle of Current Events and struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union |
| Movement | the dissident movement in the Soviet Union |
Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya (Russian: Ната́лья Евге́ньевна Горбане́вская, IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjə jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvnə ɡərbɐˈnʲefskəjə] ; 26 May 1936 – 29 November 2013) was a Russian poet, a translator of Polish literature and a civil-rights activist. She was one of the founders and the first editor of A Chronicle of Current Events (1968–1982). On 25 August 1968, with seven others, she took part in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1970 a Soviet court sentenced Gorbanevskaya to incarceration in a psychiatric hospital. She was released from the Kazan Special Psychiatric Hospital in 1972, and emigrated from the USSR in 1975, settling in France. In 2005, she became a citizen of Poland.