Yevgenia Ginzburg

Not to be confused with Eugénie Ginsberg.
Yevgenia Ginzburg
Born(1904-12-20)December 20, 1904
Moscow, Russian Empire
DiedMay 25, 1977(1977-05-25) (aged 72)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Alma materKazan State University

Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg (December 20, 1904[1] – May 25, 1977) (Russian: Евге́ния Соломо́новна Ги́нзбург[2]) was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.

  1. ^ Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012), p. 235).
  2. ^ A. L. Litvin (comp.) Dva sledstvennykh dela Evgenii Ginzburg (Kazanʹ: Knizhnyĭ Dom: Taves, 1994), p. 23.