Oleg Orlov

Oleg Orlov
Олег Орлов
Born	Oleg Petrovich Orlov (1953-04-04) April 4, 1953 (age 71) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Occupation(s)	Historian, civil rights activist
Known for	participation in Soviet dissident movement and struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Movement	dissident and human rights movements in the Soviet Union

Oleg Petrovich Orlov (Russian: Олег Петрович Орлов; born April 4, 1953) is a Russian human rights activist who has participated in post-Soviet Union human rights movements. He serves as the chairman of the Board of Human Rights Center “Memorial,” and is an executive board member of the Center's International, Historic-Educational Society. From 2004 until 2006, Orlov was in the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights of the Russian Federation. Through his work with Memorial, Orlov was a laureate of the 2009 Sakharov Prize in recognition of his human rights work. He is a member of the federal political council movement Solidarnost.^[1]