Zoya Krakhmalnikova

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Zoya Alexandrovna Krakhmalnikova (Russian: Зоя Александровна Крахмальникова; January 14, 1929 – April 17, 2008) was a Russian Christian writer, of Ukrainian origin^{[citation needed]}. She was an activist and former Soviet dissident who was repeatedly arrested by the authorities of the former Soviet Union for her publications.^[1] She was a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage.