Sergei Kovalev

Sergei Kovalev
Сергей Ковалёв
Kovalyov in 2015
Born(1930-03-02)2 March 1930
Seredyna-Buda, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died9 August 2021(2021-08-09) (aged 91)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian
Citizenship
  • Soviet Union (1930–1991)
  • Russian Federation (1991–2021)
Alma materMoscow State University (1954)
Occupation(s)Biophysicist, politician
Known forHuman rights activism with participation in the Action Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR, Moscow Helsinki Group, Memorial and the Moscow branch of Amnesty International
MovementDissident movement in the Soviet Union
ChildrenIvan; Maria, Varvara
AwardsGeuzenpenning, Légion d'honneur, Sakharov Prize, Victor Gollancz Prize, Olof Palme Prize, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lithuanian Freedom Award

Sergei Adamovich Kovalyov (also spelled Sergey Kovalev; Russian: Сергей Адамович Ковалёв; 2 March 1930 – 9 August 2021) was a Russian human rights activist and politician. During the Soviet period he was a dissident and, after 1975, a political prisoner.