Tatyana Velikanova, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Tatyana Velikanova

Soviet dissident and human rights activist

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1932

Date of Death: 19-Sep-2002

Profession: mathematician, human rights activist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Tatyana Mikhailovna Velikanova (Russian: ?????´?? ????´?????? ??????´????, 3 February 1932 in Moscow – 19 September 2002 in Moscow) was a mathematician and Soviet dissident.
A veteran of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union, she was an editor of A Chronicle of Current Events for most of that underground periodical's existence (1968-1983), bravely exposing her involvement with the anonymously edited and distributed bulletin at a press conference in May 1974.She was also 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.
Arrested in November 1979, Velikanova was sentenced in August 1980 to four years in a prison camp and five years of internal exile.
Turning down the offer of an amnesty from Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1987 as one of the last of two women convicted under Article 70 (the other was Elena Sannikova), Velikanova voluntarily served her sentence of exile to the end.