Tatyana Mikhailovna Velikanova was a mathematician and Soviet dissident.
10 Facts About Tatyana Velikanova
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Tatyana Velikanova was a founding member in 1969 of the Initiative Group on Human Rights in the USSR, the first human rights organization in the USSR since 1918.
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Tatyana Velikanova had gone to the Square with one of the demonstrators, her husband Konstantin Babitsky, so as to testify as a witness in court if needed.
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Tatyana Velikanova was sentenced to three years in exile in the Far Northern Komi Region.
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In May 1969, with 14 other dissidents, Tatyana Velikanova co-founded the Action Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR.
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In 1970, Tatyana Velikanova began contributing to the samizdat periodical A Chronicle of Current Events.
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Tatyana Velikanova eventually became one of its main organizers and editors.
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Sergei Kovalev was arrested at the end of 1974 and given a long term of imprisonment and internal exile at his trial the next year; Tatyana Velikanova Khodorovich emigrated from the USSR in 1977.
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Tatyana Velikanova spent her camp term in Mordovia, east of Moscow, and in 1984 was sent into internal exile in western Kazakhstan.
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Tatyana Velikanova turned it down, demanding that she be rehabilitated and absolved of any crimes.