Andrei Tverdokhlebov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andrei Tverdokhlebov

Soviet physicist

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1940

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 03-Dec-2011

Profession: physicist, human rights activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Andrei Nikolayevich Tverdokhlebov (Russian: ?????´? ??????´???? ?????????´???, 30 September 1940, Moscow – 3 December 2011, Pennsylvania, United States) was a Soviet physicist, dissident and human rights activist.
In 1970, he founded - along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Sakharov - the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR.
In 1973, Tverdokhlebov - along with Valentin Turchin - founded the first chapter of Amnesty International in the Soviet Union.
He also helped found Group 73, a human rights organization that helped political prisoners in the Soviet Union.
He was the author/editor of several samizdat publications while in the Soviet Union, which were compiled in the book, "In Defense of Human Rights", published by Khronika Press, New York, in 1975.