He died at the age of 76 Vladimir Bukovskiy, a dissident historian of the former Soviet Union. “The New York Times” described him as “a hero of almost legendary proportions in the dissident movement.”
The Russian writer and human rights activist spent 12 years in camps and psychiatric hospitals and half of his life in exile.
Vladimir Bukovsky died of a heart attack at “Addenbrooke’s Hospital de Cambridge”, England, the “Bukovsky Center” said in a statement.
Vladimir Bukovskiy was arrested in 1963 and sent to a psychiatric hospital for about a year for organizing poetry meetings and possessing banned literature.
In the early 1970s he was arrested a second time and became the most well-known political prisoner at the time.
Bukovski has written six novels, hundreds of short stories and thousands of poems, for a total of over sixty books. The content of these deals with his life and the many vicissitudes of the former SU.
