14 Facts About Vadim Delaunay

Vadim Delaunay was the son of Nikolai Borisovich Delone, a Soviet physicist.

Vadim Delaunay's grandfather, Boris Delaunay, was a prominent Soviet mathematician and creator of the Delaunay triangulation.

Vadim Delaunay studied at Moscow matshkola No 2, one of the best in the country at that time, then at the Department of Philology at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.

Vadim Delaunay's poetry was distributed by samizdat and some of it was published abroad.

Vadim Delaunay was arrested and given a one-year suspended sentence.

Vadim Delaunay's sentence was much lighter than that of another organizer of the same meeting, Vladimir Bukovsky, who got three years in a labor camp.

Vadim Delaunay's sentence required him to move away from Moscow, so he went to Novosibirsk State University to a friend and pupil of his grandfather, Aleksandr Aleksandrov.

Vadim Delaunay was an organizer of a concert by the Bard Alexander Galich, who was semi-legal at that time.

At the beginning of 1968, after the court hearing for Galanskov and Ginzburg, Vadim Delaunay wrote an open letter to Literaturnaya Gazeta in which he praised their bravery.

Seven people were arrested, and in court, Vadim Delaunay stated that the five minutes of freedom on the square were worth the awaiting years in prison.

Vadim Delaunay was sentenced to two years and 10 months in a labor camp that he served in Tyumen Oblast in western Siberia.

In June 1971, Vadim Delaunay finished serving his sentence and returned to Moscow.

On 13 June 1983, Vadim Delaunay died of a heart attack in Paris at the age of 35.

Vadim Delaunay's poetry has been published in Russia since 1989.