Ilya Yankelevich Gabay (Russian: Илья́ Янкеле́вич Габа́й; 9 October 1935, Baku – 20 October 1973, Moscow; buried in Baku) was a key figure in the civil rights movement in the Soviet Union. Gabay, who was Jewish, was also a literature teacher, poet, and writer. During his lifetime, his works were published only in samizdat.
In March 1968, Gabay was dismissed as an editor at the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and in May 1969, arrested and imprisoned. In January 1970, he was tried on the charge of preparing and circulating samizdat materials and sentenced to three years in a general-regime camp. Shortly before the end of the sentence, he was also questioned in Moscow in connection with the case against the Chronicle of Current Events ("Case No. 24").
After Gabay's release in May 1972, he remained unemployed and was subjected to KGB harassment. He committed suicide on October 20, 1973.[2]
He was the husband of Galina Viktorovna Gabay (née Samohena), and the father of two children, Alexei Ilyich Gabay (2/13/69) and Maria Ilyinichna Gabay (6/21/73).
Bibliography
Gabai, Ilya (1990). Posokh: Stikhi i poemy [The walking staff: Poems and verses] (in Russian). Moskva: Izd-vo "Prometeĭ" MGPI im V.I. Lenina. ISBN978-5-7042-0261-5.
Gabai, Ilya; Edelman, G. S. (1994). "Vybrannye mesta": stichi, proza, publicistika, pisʹma. Istorija inakomyslija (in Russian). Moskva: Vestʹ-VIMO. ISBN978-5-88633-006-9.
Gabay, Ilya; Gabaĭ-Fiken, G. (2011). "...Gorstka knig da druzhestva..." (in Russian). Boston, MA: M-Graphics Publishing. ISBN978-1-934881-44-6.
Gabay, Ilya (2015). Pis'ma iz zaklyucheniya (1970–1972) [Letters from prison (1970–1972)] (in Russian). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. ISBN978-5-4448-0417-9.
References
^К деятелям науки, культуры, искусства // Процесс четырёх: Сборник документов о суде над А. Гинзбургом, Ю. Галансковым, А. Добровольским, В. Лашковой / Сост. П. М. Литвинов. — Франкфурт-на-Майне: «Посев», 1968. — С. 282—288 (совместно с Ю. Кимом и П. Якиром)
^De Baets, Antoon (2001). Censorship of historical thought: A world guide, 1945–2000. Greenwood. p. 503. ISBN0313311935.
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