Compiled by Yuli Kosharovsky and Enid Wurtman
1975-1976
| Date | Event |
| 10-01-1975 | USSR repudiates 1972 trade agreement with the United States. A Novosti commentary, "Soul Hunters" cites official data showing that 98.4% of Soviet Jews applying to leave have been granted permission (11, p. 129). |
| 10-01-1975 | Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Prize. |
| 27-01-1975 | Over 100 Soviet Jews sign a letter to the West that Russian rejection of 1972 trade agreement is due to US Export-Import Bank credit limitations (Stevenson Amendment), not Jackson-Vanik Amendment (DM) (11, p. 129). |
| 29-01-1975 | Six leading Soviet Jewish activists defend Senator Henry Jackson against charge by dissident historian Roy Medvedev that he sought “pretentious publicity” in pushing for policy of freer emigration (11, p. 129). |
| 04-02-1975 | A group of the British MPs table parliamentary motion calling on Soviet authorities to commute M. Leviev’s death sentence (11, p. 130). |
| 11-02-1975 | 100 members of Belgian scientific community appeal to the Soviet authorities to release Dr. Mikhail Stern. (11, p. 130). |
| 12-02-1975 | 200 French political leaders, university professors, and physicians including Jean-Paul Sartre appeal to the Soviet authorities to release Dr. Mikhail Stern. (11, p. 130). |
| 24-02-1975 | Soviet Jews demonstrate outside the Lenin Library in Moscow calling for the release of Jewish prisoners in the USSR and freer emigration to Israel are detained by police. 10 refuseniks participated in the demonstration including Mark Nashpits, Boris Tsitlenok, Joseph Beilin, Anatoly Sharansky. Six were arrested for 15 days and Nashpits, Tsitlenok were brought to criminal court, and Tsipin and Sharansky were released (11, p. 130; 22, Natan Sharansky). |
| 03-03-1975 | Famous dissident, Viktor Krasin is given permission to emigrate to Canada. (11, p. 118) |
| 04-03-1975 | The sculptor Ernest Neizvestny is expelled from the Union of Soviet Artists after applying to emigrate to Israel. (11, p.118) |
| 05-03-1975 | Sender Levinzon is arrested in Bendery on charges of having committed economic crimes (11, p. 118). |
| 12-03-1975 | 120 activists sign letter of protest against impending trial of Mark Nashpits and Boris Tsitlionok who demonstrated outside the Lenin Library with other Refuseniks. (DM) (11, p. 118). |
| 29-03-1975 | Uniformed police are reported to have stopped Passover service at Moscow synagogue and to have ordered worshippers to leave (DM) (11, p.118) |
| 31-03-1975 | Mark Nashpits and Boris Tsitlionok are sentenced to five years’ internal exile. (11, p. 118). |
| 31-03-1975 | 98 activists from major cities begin a three day hunger strike to protest against the verdict of Nashpits and Tsitlonok. (DM) (11, p. 118). |
| 01-04-1975 | Alexander and Yevgeny Levich, sons of a famous Jewish scientist Benjamin Levich, leave Moscow for Israel after a three year struggle for exit visas. (11, p. 118). |
| 05-04-1975 | The physicists Dr. Grigory and Isai Goldstein from Tbilisi are threatened with prosecution unless they cease demanding permission to emigrate to Israel. On April 4th Jewish scientists who wish to leave the USSR participate in Moscow seminar dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (11, p.118) |
| 07-04-1975 | Mikhail Agursky, son of Samuel Agursky, who was the founder of Yevsektsiya (Jewish Section in the USSR) and the American Communist Party, leaves the Soviet Union to Israel (11, p. 118-119). |
| 12-04-1975 | 280 Jewish activists from 19 Soviet cities sign appeal to Jewish organizations abroad demanding setting up a special international commission to investigate violations of human rights in the USSR over Jewish emigration. (11, p. 119). |
| 13-04-1975 | Day of Solidarity with Soviet Jews; Israel President Katzir appeals to Kremlin leaders to end harassment of Jews who wish to emigrate. 200 Jewish activists from various parts of the USSR declare one day hunger strike. (11, p. 119). |
| 13-04-1975 | An estimated 125,000 people participate in New York demonstration. marking Solidarity Day with Soviet Jewry. (11, p. 119). |
| 18-04-1975 | Hunger strikes take place in 45 cities in Europe and America in solidarity with the fasting Jewish activists Maria and Vladimir Slepak and their son Alexander to protest against their prolonged deprivation of exit visas to Israel (11, p. 119). |
| 19-04-1975 | Arrest of Andrew Tverdokhlebov, Secretary of the Moscow’s Amnesty International group. (11, p. 119) |
| 25-04-1975 | Dr. W.J. McGill, President of the Columbia University, said that he will not “receive or deal with any visitors from the Soviet Union” and will not carry out joint projects with Soviet scientists until Vitaly Rubin, the Jewish sinologist, is permitted to accept a teaching post at Columbia University (11, p. 119). |
| 25-04-1975 | RSFSR Supreme Court rejects appeals by Mark Nashpits and Boris Tsitlionok (11, p. 119). |
| 05-05-1975 | A group of Riga Jews gathered in Rumbula on the site of mass executions of Jews for the commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust (DM). (11, p. 119) |
| 14-05-1975 | Speaking at the site of the Minsk ghetto, Colonel Yefim Davidovich has condemned anti-Semitic poet and writer Maxim Luzhanin and anti-Semitic writer Vladimir Begun. Several hundred Jews attended the rally (11, p. 119). |
| 16-05-1975 | Colonel Yefim Davidovich, Minsk, stripped of military rank and deprived of officer’s pension (11, p. 119). |
| 19-05-1975 | Mark Nashpitz is exiled to Chita; Boris Tsitlonock to Krasnoyarsk. (11,p.120) |
| 27-05-1975 | Arrest of Anatoly Malkin for "evasion of military service”; previously Malkin was expelled from an institute as a result of filing for emigration to Israel (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 01-06-1975 | Sender Levinson of Bendery, Moldavia, is sentenced to six years in a labor camp for “speculation” (DM). (11, p.120) |
| 06-06-1975 | 100 activists sent an appeal in defense of Malkin to U.S. Senate and Congress. |
| 06-06-1975 | USSR Supreme Soviet adopts decree imposing a new tax of 30% on money sent to Soviet citizens from abroad (11, p. 120, DM). |
| 14-06-1975 | Lev Yagman, David Chernoglaz and Lassal Kaminsky, convicted in the 1971 Leningrad trial, are freed following completion of their five year sentences. ( 11, p. 120). |
| 14-06-1975 | In England the film "Calculated Risk” was shown; filmed in Moscow with the participation of Anatoly Sharansky and Vladmir Slepak. |
| 15-06-1975 | Activists in several cities held a hunger strike to protest the sixth anniversary of the beginning of mass arrests in 1970 (25). |
| 16-06-1975 | 38 Soviet Jewish activists, including Vitaly Rubin, Vladimir Slepak, Victor Brailovsky and Mark Azbel appeal to the International Pen Club and five prominent Western authors to act in defense of the samizdat magazine "Jews in the USSR" (11, p. 120). |
| 17-06-1975 | Interrogation of Ida Nudel on documents relating to Prisoners of Zion (25). |
| 29-06-1975 | Two groups of refuseniks meet with 10 senators, led by Hubert Humphrey, in Jacob Javits’ room at the Hotel Russiya (25). |
| 29-06-1975 | Visit to Moscow of fourteen senators led by Hubert Humphrey. The visit lasted from June 29 to July 5, 1975 (25). |
| 02-07-1975 | A provocation was staged against activist Lev Roitburd at the Odessa airport aimed at preventing his departure to Moscow, and subsequently on the basis of this provocation Roitburd will be sentenced to two years imprisonment (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 05-07-1975 | A 57 page new edition of the dissident "Chronicle of Current Events” begins to circulate in Moscow. Dated May 31st, the latest edition is the 36th to appear since 1968. (DM) (11, p. 121). |
| 14-07-1975 | Intourist announces that "tourist-Zionists will be regarded as “interfering in Russia’s internal affairs”. The announcement follows a similar warning in the Soviet weekly Nedelya. (11, p. 121). |
| 22-07-1975 | The Presidents Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations and National Conference on Soviet Jewry issue a joint statement opposing changes in the Jackson-Vanik Amendment without parallel improvement in the USSR’s restrictions on emigration. (DM) (11, p. 121). |
| The Speaker of the Netherlands Parliament Edward van Thijn, returning from a visit to Moscow, confirms the use of conscription in the Soviet campaign against Jewish emigration. (DM) (11, p. 121) | |
| 01-08-1975 | The “Final Helsinki Act" was signed in Helsinki at the summit of 35 nations of Europe, USA and Canada (13, p. 183-189). |
| 03-08-1975 | Prisoner of Zion Vladimir Markman arrives in Israel after serving three years imprisonment in the USSR (11, p. 121). |
| 11-08-1975 | Prisoner of Zion David Chernoglaz receives exit visa to Israel (11, p. 121). |
| 15-08-1975 | Yakov Vinarov, a 21 year old engineering student who refused conscription into the army, is sentenced in Kiev to three years' imprisonment for "evading military service". (DM) (11, p. 121 |
| 26-08-1975 | Odessa activist Lev Roitburd receives a two year sentence of imprisonment "for resisting arrest" during visit to USSR of US Senate delegation (11, p. 122). |
| 21-08-1975 | Isaac Yulitin, a 35 year old Doctor of Mathematics, is sentenced to one year imprisonment on charges of attempted smuggling, having been arrested at Leningrad airport enroute to Israel (11, p. 122). |
| 25-08-1975 | Anatoly Malkin, a 20 year old Jewish student of metallurgy, charged in Moscow with evading military service after applying for an exit visa to Israel, is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment (11, p. 122). |
| 29-08-1975 | Colonels Lev Ovsischer and Yefim Davidovich and other Zionist activists protest imminent screening in Minsk of new anti-Zionist documentary film, "The Secret and the Obvious". (d.or.) (11, p. 122). |
| 02-09-1975 | Jewish leaders agree in Paris to hold a Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry in Brussels in February 1976. (11, p. 95). |
| 05-09-1975 | During New Year’s eve service Jews clash with militia outside Moscow synagogue. (11 p. 95) |
| 09-09-1975 | Professor Aryeh Dvoretsky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and President of the Israel Science Academy, lectures at Jewish scientific seminar of Alexander Voronel in Moscow. (DM) (11, p. 95). |
| 09-09-1975 | British 35’s Women’s Committee launch a global campaign to collect 12 million signatures in 42 countries on behalf of persecuted Soviet Jewish women (11, p. 95). |
| 13-09-1975 | Pravda and Izvestia publish complete text of Helsinki Final Act.(11, p. 95). |
| 18-09-1975 | The Soviet Union ratified the Helsinki Accords (26, p.93). |
| 19-09-1975 | Alexander Slepak, 23, elder son of Moscow activist Vladimir Slepak, is sent to prison on charges of “loitering”. (DM) (11, p. 95). |
| 19-09-1975 | French Jewry holds week of solidarity with Jews in the USSR from September 19th to 29th. (11, p. 95). |
| 21-09-1975 | Soviet authorities intervene in Succot picnic held in the woods near Moscow by Russian Jews and visiting Israeli athletes; tearing down Israeli flag; (11, p. 95). |
| 24-09-1975 | 20,000 participate in march of solidarity with Soviet Jewry in Paris (11, p. 95). |
| 24-09-1975 | RSFSR rejects appeal by Mark Nashpits, sentenced in May to 5 years’ exile. (DM) (11, p. 95). |
| 28-09-1975 | Jewish activists in Kiev were not allowed to attend the Babi Yar commemoration ceremony on the 34th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews (25, 11, p. 95). |
| 30-09-1975 | Two Jewish cemeteries in Kiev are reported to have been desecrated by vandals. (11, p. 95). |
| 01-10-1975 | Sylva Zalmanson begins the second week of her hunger strike outside the UN building in New York in support of her husband Edward Kuznetsov and her brothers Israel and Wolf Zalmanson who are still imprisoned in the USSR. (11, p. 95, DM). |
| 02-10-1975 | Dr. Mikhail Stern’s son Viktor arrives in London to launch a world-wide campaign for the release of his father from a Soviet prison camp. (11, p. 95) |
| 08-10-1975 | Newspaper Sovetskaya Belorussia "accused" Refuseniks Naum Olshansky and Yefim Davidovich that they "sold out to Zionism." |
| 09-10-1975 | Andrei Sakharov awarded Nobel Prize. |
| 10-10-1975 | Parliamentarians from 12 Western European countries form a committee in support of Soviet Jewish emigration. (11, p. 95). |
| 16-10-1975 | The call-up of Anatoly Malkin, who refused to serve in the Soviet army, because the authorities are using it as a deterrent against those who want to leave, was reported in the West. (25). |
| 21-10-1975 | The USSR permanent mission at the UN protests demonstrations by the "Zionist hooligan groups" held October 8th-9th. (11, p. 96). |
| 28-10-1975 | 52 British MPS sign motion condemning Soviet treatment of Professor Levich and urging the Soviet government to honor the Helsinki agreement. (DM) (11, p.96) |
| 30-10-1975 | The 37th issue of the samizdat “Chronicle of Current Events” is circulated in the USSR. (11. p. 96) |
| 31-10-1975 | 119 Soviet Jews sign protest against the UN Third Committee draft resolution equating Zionism with racism claiming it is “essentially anti-Semitic”. (DM) (11,p.96) |
| 31-10-1975 | Boris Penson, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment at the first Leningrad trial, declares a hunger strike to “mark political prisoner day” in the USSR. (DM) (11,p.96) |
| 10-11-1975 | A women's Amnesty International conference in London adopts a resolution urging the Soviet Union to cease its antisemitic policies (11, p. 96). |
| 10-11-1975 | UN Resolution number 3379 equated Zionism with racism (13, p. 85). |
| 18-11-1975 | Alexander Silnitsky, a 23 year old student from Krasnodar, is sentenced to three years imprisonment on charges of draft evasion (11, p. 96, DM). |
| 20-11-1975 | The arrest of Boris Zaturensky, 33, in Minsk is reported. Zaturensky was arrested on charges of buying and selling gold coins, not long after his application to emigrate to Israel. (11, p. 96). |
| 20-11-1975 | A fortnightly scientific seminar, similar to the one in Moscow, is begun in Kiev with the participation of 15 Jewish scientists, most of whom were refused exit visas to Israel (11, p. 96), |
| 23-11-1975 | Dr. Mikhail Stern is reported to be seriously ill in prison (11, p. 96). |
| 31/11/1975 | 119 Soviet Jews have protested against the UN resolution that equated Zionism with racism. (11, p. 96). |
| 01-12-1975 | Petya Pinkhasov, 39, of Derbent, is released after serving two years of a five year sentence. (DM) (11, p. 96). |
| 01-12-1975 | Felix Dektor, co-editor of samizdat magazine "The Jews in the USSR", is expelled from the Writers' Union. (11, p. 96) |
| 01-12-1975 | Over 300 British doctors appeal for release Dr. M. Stern who was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. (11, p. 96). |
| 13-12-1975 | The French Communist Party challenges the Soviet authorities to deny the existence of forced labor camps for political prisoners in the USSR. (DM) (11, p. 96). |
| 14-12-1975 | A National Council on Soviet Jewry is established at the conclusion of the first National Conference on Soviet Jewry held in Great Britain. (11, p. 96). |
| 15-12-1975 | The Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth Dr. Immanuel Jakobovitz visits the USSR at the invitation of the Soviet authorities. The visit will last until December 24 (11, p. 97). |
| 24-12-1975 | On Vladimir Prestin’s initiative, a "Day of Solidarity with Prisoners of Zion" is held in Moscow. (22, Vladimir Prestin). |
| 24-12-1975 | In Moscow, a demonstration of solidarity with Prisoners of Zion is organized. Sharansky, Luntz, Azbel, Kosharovsky, Brailovsky, Lazaris and others are arrested (25). |
| 31-12-1975 | Emigration in 1975 was 13,216 people, representing 38% of the number of emigrants in 1973. |
| 00-01-1976 | In Leningrad, under the leadership of Evgeny Abezgauz an unauthorized exhibition of paintings by Jewish artists is held. |
| 00-01-1976 | The need to receive a reference from your employer to apply for an exit visa was eliminated. |
| 00-01-1976 | Authorities demand that Vladimir Kislik, head of a scientists-refuseniks seminar in Kiev, stop activities of the seminar; otherwise they threatened serious repercussions. (25) |
| 05-01-1976 | President Ford (USA) claims that the Jackson Amendment, which became law a year ago, has led to reduced emigration of Soviet Jews. (11, p. 97). |
| 16-01-1976 | Lydia Nisanova, 32, of Derbent, receives 18 months imprisonment on charges of speculation. In the summer of 1975 Mrs. Nisanova applied for an emigration permit to Israel. (11, p. 97). |
| 29-01-1976 | The Council of Europe in Strasbourg approves unanimously a recommendation that member states be required to intervene with Moscow on the situation of Jews in the USSR. (11, p. 97). |
| 16-02-1976 | Delegation of refuseniks is accepted by senior officials of the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs for the first time in four years (11, p. 97). |
| 16-02-1976 | A meeting with a group of refuseniks was held In the CPSU Central Committee by a Department head of administrative bodies Albert Ivanov. |
| 17-02-1976 | The Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry takes place in Brussels until November 19th. (11, p. 97). |
| 24-02-1976 | The mathematician, Professor Alexander Luntz, a principal Moscow Jewish activist, arrives in Israel (11, p. 97). |
| 27-02-1976 | Iosif Meshiner, 41, a teacher from Bendery, is released after serving a six-year prison term. (DM) (11, p. 97). |
| 29-02-1976 | Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry" (SSSJ) held a protest rally outside the Soviet embassy in the USA (25). |
| 29-02-1976 | In Washington, the "Conference on Soviet Jewry” began. The Conference will complete its work on March 2. |
| 15-03-1976 | A Purimshpiel is performed in a small Yiddish amateur theater in Kishinev. (11, p. 130, DM). |
| 25-03-1976 | 50 Nobel laureates appeal to Soviet authorities for the release of Dr. Shtern. (11, p. 130.) |
| 04-04-1976 | National Conference on Soviet Jewry in the United States proclaims National Solidarity Month on behalf of Soviet Jewry. (11, p. 130). |
| 24-04-1976 | Former Red Army Colonel Yefim Davidovich, an activist fighting for repatriation of Soviet Jewry to Israel and against anti-Semitism, has died of a heart attack in Minsk at the age of 54. (11, p. 130). |
| 02-05-1976 | 100,000 participate in New York in a march of solidarity with Soviet Jewry. (11, p. 130). |
| 09-05-1976 | 3000 Jews attend meeting addressed by Colonel Lev Ovsishcher in Minsk on the anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II. (11, p. 130). |
| 12-05-1976 | The Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR is formed in Moscow. The Helsinki Monitoring Group is led by dissident Yuri Orlov. (11, p. 130). |
| 19-05-1976 | 77 activists from 13 cities made a statement about the need to revive Jewish culture in the USSR (25). |
| 23-05-1976 | A tax 30% is levied on money transferred to Soviet citizens from abroad. (11, p. 130 – p. 131). |
| 00-06-1976 | Representatives of the SSSJ organization report that seminars operate in Moscow under the direction of Alexander Lerner, Mark Azbel, Benjamin Levich, Yuli Kosharovsky, Arkady Mai, and Grigory Rosenstein (25). |
| 00-06-1976 | Vladimir Slepak replaces Vitaly Rubin in the "Moscow Helsinki Group” due to Vitaly’s departure to Israel (22, Vladimir Slepak). |
| 11-06-1976 | Soviet Jews celebrate the 100th session of the Moscow scientists’ seminar. (11, p.131) |
| 15-06-1976 | USSR adopts new regulations raising duty on parcels sent to Soviet citizens from abroad. (11, p.131) |
| 15-06-1976 | Demonstrations and protest rallies were held in Israel on the sixth anniversary of the arrests of the Leningrad processes (25). |
| 18-06-1976 | Inna and Vitaly Rubin arrive in Israel (25). |
| 22-06-1976 | Death sentence on Mikhail Leviev is commuted to 15 years in a labor camp. |
| 01-07-1976 | A memorial erected at Babi Yar, contains no Jewish reference (11, p. 130). |
| 06-07-1976 | Arkady and Leonid Weinman, 24 year old twins from Kharkov, receive exit visas for Israel after serving a four-year prison term of imprisonment for “hooliganism”. (DM) (11, p. 130, DM). |
| 07-07-1976 | An all-party group of British women MPs in England has created a committee in support of activist Ida Nudel” (11, p. 131). |
| 09-07-1976 | A seminar of Refuseniks under the leadership of Colonel Lev Ovsischer begins to operate in Minsk (11, p. 131). |
| 16-07-1976 | Jewish activist Lazar Lubarsky (Kharkov) is freed after serving a four year sentence for allegedly giving away state secrets. (11, p. 131). |
| 30-07-1976 | Yuri Vudka, of Ryazan, is released from labor camp after serving a seven year sentence for “anti-Soviet activities”. (11, p. 131). |
| 07-08-1976 | Parliamentary delegation of Denmark called the Soviet authorities to carry out liberal emigration policies (11, p. 131). |
| 12-09-1976 | June Jacobs was elected Chairman of the British National Council for Soviet Jewry (11, p. 124). |
| 13-09-1976 | A week of activities on behalf of Moscow activist Ida Nudel begins in Great Britain. (11, p. 103) |
| 18-09-1976 | A group of twenty activists, including Vladimir Slepak, Boris Chernobilsky, Yosef Ahs and other Jewish activists, submitted to the Supreme Soviet a letter of protest against unsubstantiated refusals. The letter sets out requirements for written refusals of exit visas and the possibilitiy to appeal in the presence of a refusenik (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 20-09-1976 | The widow and daughter of Colonel Yefim Davidovich arrive in Israel on December 27. (11, p. 103) |
| 27-09-1976 | Yefim Davidovich’s remains were delivered to Israel and buried in Jerusalem. (11, p. 103) |
| 24-09-1976 | Jews celebrate the New Year outsider the Moscow Choral Synagogue without police interference. (11, p. 103). |
| 16-10-1976 | Enid Wurtman, co-chairman of the Union of Council for Soviet Jewry, and Connie Smukler arrive on a visit to Moscow (22, Enid Wurtman). |
| 18-10-1976 | Sit-in demonstration of refuseniks in the Supreme Soviet, demanding an answer to a letter filed by Refuseniks a month earlier. The demonstration was attended by twelve people. In the evening, participants were detained, taken into the woods and released (22, Dina Beilin, Enid Wurtman). |
| 19-10-1976 | The New York Times published an article about the demonstration on October 17 in the Supreme Soviet (22 , Enid Wurtman). |
| 19-10-1976 | 13 activists held a demonstration at the Supreme Soviet. At the end of the day participants were detained, taken into the woods, and some Refuseniks were beaten up by the police. Zahar Tesker’s nose was broken. (aa.). |
| 19-10-1976 | Press-conference was organized by Natan Sharansky at Vladimir Slepak’s apartment in connection with beating of activists in the forest near Moscow, following the demonstration at the Supreme Soviet, Moscow (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 19-10-1976 | A joint Israeli-American committee meeting in New York agrees in principle to restrict aid to “drop-outs” in Vienna (11, p. 103). |
| 20-10-1976 | Demonstration of twenty-eight activists in the Supreme Soviet with a demand to punish those who were guilty of beating of Jewish activists the previous day as well as to respond to the letter filed by Refuseniks a month earlier. They attain a promise to be received by Shchelokov the next day (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 20-10-1976 | David Shipler article in The New York Times about the beating of activists after the demonstration (22, Enid Wurtman). |
| 21-10-1976 | Demonstration of fifty-two activists at the reception room of the MIA; reception of representatives of the demonstrators include Vladimir Slepak, Anatoly Sharansky, Boris Chernobylsky by Minister Shchelokov. After reception the demonstrators with yellow stars on the chest passed through the center of Moscow to the reception room of the Central Committee, where they were detained and taken outside of Moscow. Four - Victor Elistratov, Mikhail Kremen, Arkady Polishchuk and Boris Chernobilsky were separated from the others and taken away. (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 22-10-1976 | Demonstration of forty activists in the Supreme Soviet, march out of the Supreme Soviet building to the reception room of the Central Committee with yellow stars on their clothes. Albert Ivanov received Vladimir Slepak, Yosef Ahs and Anatoly Sharansky. At the end of the day they were detained and taken to a drunkards facility, all were registered, a report was written down, and they were forewarned. (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 23-10-1976 | Information was received that Victor Elistratov, Mikhail Kremen and Arkady Polishchuk were detained for 15 days, and Boris Chernobilsky was placed in Butyrskaya prison (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 25-10-1976 | Demonstration at the Central Committee with yellow stars. Most of the protesters were arrested on their way to the Central Committee, at home or near home. All in all 17 people were arrested and sentenced to 15 days of detention: Vladimir Slepak, Anatoly Sharansky, Yuli Kosharovsky, Yosef Beilin, Felix Kandel, etc. Six women were fined 20 rubles each. Criminal cases on hooliganism charges were opened against Yoseph Ahs and Boris Chernobilsky. A month later they will be released for lack of evidence. (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 28-10-1976 | Appeal of Maria Slepak to Senator Edward Kennedy in defense of Boris Chernobilsky and Joseph Ahs; during this time her own husband was serving 15 days of detention (Letter of Mary Sepak). |
| 00/11/1976 | A book "The Long Road to Freedom" was issued by samizdat. |
| 02-11-1976 | Presidential elections in the U.S. were won by the Democratic party candidate Jimmy Carter. |
| 10-11-1976 | Prisoners of Zion Yuri Vudka and Lazar Lubarsky receive exit visas to Israel. (11, p. 103). |
| 18-11-1976 | Arrest in Shahrizyabe, Uzbekistan, of brothers Zavurov for refusing to take back their international passports. (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 18-11-1976 | The first trial in Shahrizyabe, Uzbekistan of the brothers Zavurov; they were sentenced to 15 days of detention (22, Dina Beilin). |
| 19-11-1976 | Mark Lutsker, Kiev, who recently completed two year sentence for draft evasion, receives an exit visa to Israel. (DM) (11, p. 104). |
| 22-11-1976 | An article in Izvestia – “Formula of betrayal: propagandist 'of the Zionist paradise’ in the mantle of the scientist" (27, p. 253). |
| 23-11-1976 | Searches in apartments of the organizers of the symposium on Jewish culture, including Fain, Prestin, Abramovich, Lazaris, Begun and Essas (27, p. 254). |
| 24-11-1976 | Appeal of 92 refuseniks to world Jewry protesting searches of the organizers of the symposium on Jewish culture. (8, p.151). |
| 24-11-1976 | Yevgeny Abezgauz, a leading Leningrad refusenik, receives permission to emigrate to Israel. (DM) (11, p.104) |
| 26-11-1976 | The Organizing Committee of the symposium on Jewish culture appealed to a number of international organizations and public figures with a call for support (27, p. 257). |
| 08-12-1976 | Deputy Minister of Culture Popov warns organizers of the symposium on Jewish culture of the unacceptibilty of the symposium (27, p. 262). |
| 10-12-1976 | KGB increases the pressure on the organizers of the symposium and starts questioning main activists (27, p. 269). |
| 14-12-1976 | A new wave of searches and interrogations of members of the organizing committee of the symposium on Jewish culture in Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, Gorky, Minsk, Tbilisi and other cities, which lasted until December 20th (27, p. 270-276). |
| 14-12-1976 | Meeting of organizers of the symposium on Jewish culture with Aaron Vergelis, editor in chief of the newspaper "Sovetishe Heimland” (27, p. 273). |
| 21-12-1976 | Scheduled unofficial symposium on Jewish culture in the USSR is prevented from taking place by the authorities. |
Employed abbreviations: a.a. - the archive of the author;
DM - date of a message (not of an event); t.m.- a telephone message from Moscow in real time.
Other sources of information are listed below. Their numbers are given in the chronology in parentheses.