HERMAN OBUHOV, public person, writer
Herman Obuhov was born on 27 November, 1949 in Chelyabinsk, USSR. In 1966 he finished Minsk secondary school №1 and in 1975 he graduated from Leningrad Electrotechnical University (LETI) with a Master’s degree in radio-electronics (MSEE).
He is the author of 5 books: Extinguished Dawn 15 Years Later, Confiscated Letters, The Time of Filibusters, Bottomless, The Stolen Country.
He has also written more than 300 articles and 6 screenplays: Flight to Johannesburg, Gold Bird in Gold Cage, New Jersey Turnpike, My Alaska, Titian’s Gift, President Putin & Russian mob.
Radio Liberty and Obozrevatel (Observer) Blogger.
| Social and Political Activity | |
|---|---|
1975 - 1981 | Dissident, samizdat (undergraund press). Wrote the anti-communist book “Extinguished Dawn” |
1981 | Arrest by KGB and sentensed by Leningrad City Court to 4 years of labor camp and 2 years of exile under Art.70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR “Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” |
1981 - 1987 | “Political” labor camps in Perm District and exile in Khabarovsk Region |
1985 | President Reagan invitation to the United States, the U.S. Congress granted a political asylum in advance |
1988 | Political emigration to the UK by the invitation of Amnesty International. Publications about it in all leading media, interview on BBC-1, speaches at the Universities. Moving to the USA |
1990 - 1995 | Worked as a biomed engineer at Yale University Madical Center, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Russian-American Council on Economic Development (RACED) in participation with the First Mayor of St. Peterburg Anatoly Sobchak |
1996 - 1997 | Worked at Hewlett-Packard, Andover, Massachusetts |
1998 - 2002 | International Affairs Advisor in the Legislative Assambly of St. Petersburg, numerous meeting with the Russian and Western politicians |
2002 - 2007 | President of the International Charitable Foundation “Open the World to Children”. Foundation Board of Trustees: academic Zhores Alferov, Nobel Prize winner, the U.S. (ex) Consul General in St. Petersburg Jack Gosnell, Count Peter Sheremetev (France) and others |
2008 - 2013 | Worked on own book and screenplays in the U.S. |
2014 - 2017 | Participating in the Revolution of Dignity (Maidan) in Kyiv, Ukraine. Founder of the International Anti-Putin Coalition |
2018 | Back to the United States. Established the Foundation “Stop Russian Terror”, Connecticut |
Deutsche Welle: Ukraine: Exile for Russian Opposition
Former Soviet Dissident Talks About Ukraine-Russia Crisis
Books
