Yuri Galanskov

Yuri Timofeyevich Galanskov
Native name
Юрий Тимофеевич Галансков
Born(1939-06-19)19 June 1939
Moscow
Died4 November 1972(1972-11-04) (aged 33)
Mordovia
OccupationJournalist, essayist, poet, and publisher
Period1961-1966
SubjectPolitics, Communism
Literary movementSamizdat

Yuri Timofeyevich Galanskov (Russian: Ю́рий Тимофе́евич Галанско́в; 19 June 1939 – 4 November 1972) was a Russian poet, historian, human rights activist and dissident. For his political activities, such as founding and editing samizdat almanac Phoenix, he was incarcerated in prisons, camps and forced treatment psychiatric hospitals (Psikhushkas). He died in a labor camp.