13 Facts About Larisa Bogoraz

Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union.

Larisa Bogoraz became well known when, on August 25,1968, she organized seven people to protest in Red Square against the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia at the 1968 Red Square demonstration, together with Pavel Litvinov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Vadim Delaunay and other protesters.

Daniel was released in 1970, while Larisa Bogoraz was still in Siberia.

However, soon after her release, Larisa Bogoraz resumed her resistance of the Soviet regime.

Larisa Bogoraz co-wrote an underground book, Memory, which detailed Stalin's terror and was published overseas.

Larisa Bogoraz contributed to the underground publication A Chronicle of Current Events.

Larisa Bogoraz launched a campaign in 1986 to have all political prisoners freed.

In 1989, Larisa Bogoraz joined, and subsequently became chairwoman of, the newly re-founded Moscow Helsinki Group.

Larisa Bogoraz acted as a bridge between the old guard of dissidents, and the new generation that were arising as the Soviet Union dissolved.

Larisa Bogoraz became chairwoman of the Seminar on Human Rights, a joint Russian-American nongovernmental organization.

Larisa Bogoraz resigned from the latter in 1996, but continued to exert influence in human rights circles up until her death.

Larisa Bogoraz died in Moscow on April 6,2004, aged 74, after a series of strokes.

Larisa Bogoraz is mentioned in the song Ilyich by Yuliy Kim, available at several sites.