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Sep 30, 1940 Moscow, Russia Died on 03 Dec 2011 (aged 71)
Soviet physicist
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About Andrei Tverdokhlebov
- Andrei Nikolayevich Tverdokhlebov (Russian: ?????´? ??????´???? ?????????´???, 30 September 1940, Moscow – 3 December 2011, Pennsylvania, United States) was a Soviet physicist, dissident and human rights activist.
- In 1970, he founded - along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Sakharov - the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR.
- In 1973, Tverdokhlebov - along with Valentin Turchin - founded the first chapter of Amnesty International in the Soviet Union.
- He also helped found Group 73, a human rights organization that helped political prisoners in the Soviet Union.
- He was the author/editor of several samizdat publications while in the Soviet Union, which were compiled in the book, "In Defense of Human Rights", published by Khronika Press, New York, in 1975.
