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Anatoly Marchenko

1938 - 1986

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Anatoly Tikhonovich Marchenko (Russian: Анато́лий Ти́хонович Ма́рченко, 23 January 1938 – 8 December 1986) was a Soviet dissident, author, and human rights campaigner, who became one of the first two recipients (along with Nelson Mandela) of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought of the European Parliament when it was awarded to him posthumously in 1988. Marchenko, originally an apolitical oil driller from a poor background, turned to writing and politics as a result of several episodes of incarceration starting in 1958, during which he began to associate with other dissidents. Marchenko gained international fame in 1969 through his book, My Testimony, an autobiographical account written after his arrival in Moscow in 1966 about his then-recent sentences in Soviet labour camps and prisons. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anatoly Marchenko is the 383rd most popular social activist (down from 345th in 2019), the 1,253rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,163rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 383 out of 840. Before him are Nikolai Kuznetsov, Leonard Peltier, Flora Brovina, Maria Nikiforova, Tuvia Bielski, and Meshadi Azizbekov. After him are Gaius Hostilius Mancinus, Dimitrana Ivanova, Marianne Hainisch, Dorothy Day, Ryu Gwansun, and Mathew Brady.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 280. Before him are Karl Schranz, Barry Newman, Moshe Safdie, Dennis Oppenheim, Enzo G. Castellari, and Daevid Allen. After him are Shashi Kapoor, Torgny Lindgren, Lindsay Kemp, Betty Cuthbert, Ants Antson, and Günter Brus. Among people deceased in 1986, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 139. Before him are Lili Kraus, Teddy Wilson, Helen B. Taussig, Leona Woods, Henry Russell, and David Cooper. After him are Sandro Puppo, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Broderick Crawford, Otto Glória, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, and V. C. Andrews.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 1,253 out of 3,761. Before him are Boris Polevoy (1908), Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Ekaterina Maximova (1939), Veijo Meri (1928), Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1906), and Natalya Kovshova (1920). After him are Stanislav Govorukhin (1936), Victor Pelevin (1962), Nicolas Slonimsky (1894), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), Boris Volynov (1934), and Yuri Rytkheu (1930).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 27. Before him are Catherine Breshkovsky (1844), Natalya Estemirova (1958), Pavel Pestel (1793), Feodosia Morozova (1632), Alexander Antonov (1889), and Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911). After him are Sophie Liebknecht (1884), Peter Arshinov (1887), Marina Oswald Porter (1941), Nikolay Bauman (1873), Lev Chernyi (1890), and Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy (1790).

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