Ilya Gabay - Biography

Ilya Yankelevich Gabay (9 October 1935, Baku - 20 October 1973, Moscow; buried in Baku) was a key figure in the civil rights movement in the Soviet Union. Gabay was also a literature teacher, poet and writer. During his lifetime his works were published only in samizdat. He was arrested several times, convicted and imprisoned by Soviet authorities for his political activism. Gabay committed suicide.

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• Ilya Gabay: biography