Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya
Наталья Евгеньевна Горбаневская
Gorbanevskaya at the balcony of the library "Russian abroad" (Русское Зарубежье), Moscow, 19 September 2005
Born	(1936-05-26)26 May 1936 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	29 November 2013(2013-11-29) (aged 77) Paris, France
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	Soviet Union (formerly) and Poland
Alma mater	Leningrad University
Occupation(s)	Russian poet, translator of Polish literature, civil rights activist
Known for	her participation in Soviet dissident movement, the 1968 Red Square demonstration, the editing of A Chronicle of Current Events and struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Movement	the dissident movement in the Soviet Union
Gorbanevskaya's voice from Gorbanevskaya's interview for Ekho Moskvy, 21 June 2011

Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya (Russian: Ната́лья Евге́ньевна Горбане́вская, IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjə jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvnə ɡərbɐˈnʲefskəjə] ^ⓘ; 26 May 1936 – 29 November 2013) was a Russian poet, a translator of Polish literature and a civil-rights activist. She was one of the founders and the first editor of A Chronicle of Current Events (1968–1982). On 25 August 1968, with seven others, she took part in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1970 a Soviet court sentenced Gorbanevskaya to incarceration in a psychiatric hospital. She was released from the Kazan Special Psychiatric Hospital in 1972, and emigrated from the USSR in 1975, settling in France. In 2005, she became a citizen of Poland.