Yury A. Dmitriev

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Full Name	Yury A. Dmitriev
Occupation	Human Rights Activist
Date Of Birth	Jan 28, 1956(1956-01-28)
Age	68
Birthplace	Petrozavodsk
Country	Soviet Union
Birth City	Petrozavodsk
Horoscope	Aquarius

Yury A. Dmitriev Biography

Yury A. Dmitriev is one of the most popular and richest Human Rights Activist who was born on January 28, 1956 in Petrozavodsk, Petrozavodsk, Soviet Union. Yury Alexeyevich Dmitriev (born 1956 in Petrozavodsk) is a civil rights activist and local historian in Karelia (Northwest Russia). Since the early 1990s, he has worked to locate the execution sites of Stalin’s Great Terror and identify as many as possible of the buried victims they contain. As a result of his commitment, Karelia’s past is better documented in this respect than almost any other part of the Russian Federation.

From 1998 to 2009, Dmitriev headed the Academy for the Defence of Socio-Legal Rights, a Karelian human rights NGO. As president of that body, in 2002, Yury Dmitriev wrote to the then head of the Karelian republic, Sergey Katanandov, objecting to the proposal by the Karelia Council of Veterans to put up a statue in Petrozavodsk to Yury Andropov. (KGB chairman from 1967 to 1982, Andropov headed the Komsomol in Karelia during the Great Patriotic War, from 1940 to 1944.) Katanandov did not reply to Dmitriev’s letter and the 10-foot- high memorial to Andropov was erected. The decision, commented Dmitriev, reflected the nation’s attitude to its recent history: “We don’t know the past, and we don’t want to know.”

In 2003, in addition to his Books of Remembrance, Dmitriev also published a collection of documents about the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the fate of the numerous prisoners and “special settlers” engaged in its construction.

In 2005 Dmitriev was awarded the new “Golden Pen of Russia” prize for his publications.

At first Dmitriev was junior partner to Ivan Chukhin (ru: Чухин, Иван Иванович), a deputy of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet and State Duma (1990-1995), and the first chairman of the Memorial Society in Karelia. Chukhin felt compelled to engage in the work because his own father had been involved in acts of repression under Stalin. When Chukhin, a retired police officer, was killed in a car accident in May 1997 Dmitriev carried on alone. On 1 July 1997, with members of St Petersburg Memorial, Dmitriev located a massive killing field, 12 kilometres from Medvezhyegorsk, that subsequently acquired the name of Sandarmokh; some weeks later, guided by local inhabitants, he confirmed the identification of the Krasny Bor execution site, 20 km from Petrozavodsk.

Yury A. Dmitriev Net Worth

Yury A. Dmitriev is one of the richest Human Rights Activist from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yury A. Dmitriev 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Yury Dmitriev spent his first year in a Soviet orphanage. In 1957 he was adopted by a childless army officer and his wife; he found out he was not their child at the age of 14. His father was posted to East Germany, and Yury spent part of his childhood in Dresden.

He began but did not finish a course at the Northwest Health Department of the Leningrad Medical College. During the Gorbachev years, Dmitriev was a member of the Karelian People’s Front, and served between 1988 and 1991 as an aide to USSR People’s Deputy Mikhail Zenko. It was then that he first encountered mass graves of those shot in the 1930s.

As a result of Dmitriev’s activities he was appointed secretary of the Petrozavodsk Commission for Restoring the Rights of Rehabilitated Victims of Political Repression and in 2002 became (and remains) a member of the organisation of the same name at the republican level, covering all of Karelia. He is a member of the Karelian branch of the Memorial Society, and in 2014 became its chairman.

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In 2016 Dmitriev was awarded an Honorary Diploma of the Karelian Republic by the administration of the new head of Karelia, Alexander Hudilainen (Худилайнен, Александр Петрович).

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Yury Ranked on the list of most popular Human Rights Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Soviet Union. Yury A. Dmitriev celebrates birthday on January 28 of every year.

On 13 December 2016 Dmitriev was arrested and charged with making pornographic images of his foster daughter, Natasha. From the outset Dmitriev’s colleagues declared the charges to be baseless and motivated by a determination to discredit the historian and his work. The closed trial attracted national and international attention and criticism. On 26 December 2017, a second assessment by a court-appointed body of the photographs of his foster daughter concluded that they contained no element of pornography and had been taken, as the accused insisted, to monitor the health of a sickly child.