Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Lyudmila Alexeyeva | |
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Людмила Алексеева | |
Alexeyeva in 2005 | |
| Born | Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva 20 July 1927 Yevpatoria, Crimean ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 8 December 2018 (aged 91) Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union (1927–1977) United States (1982–2018) Russia (1991–2018) |
| Alma mater | the MSU Faculty of History, the graduate school of the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics |
| Occupation(s) | Russian historian, activist, chairwomen of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group |
| Known for | Human rights activism with participation in the Moscow Helsinki Group |
| Movement | Moscow Helsinki Group, Strategy-31, other rights-related movements |
| Spouse | Nikolay Williams |
| Awards | State Prize of the Russian Federation, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Olof Palme Prize, Légion d'honneur, Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, Sakharov Prize |
Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva (Russian: Людми́ла Миха́йловна Алексе́ева, IPA: [lʲʊˈdmʲilə ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvə]; 20 July 1927 – 8 December 2018) was a Russian historian and human-rights activist who was a founding member in 1976 of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group and one of the last Soviet dissidents active in post-Soviet Russia.