Georgi Vladimov
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Georgi Nikolaevich Vladimov (Volosevich) (February 19 1931
Kharkiv, Ukraine - October 19 2003 Frankfurt, Germany) was a
Russian dissident writer.
In 1977 he became the leader of the Moscow section of Amnesty
International, forbidden in the USSR.
Vladimov's most famous novel was Faithful Ruslan
(English translation: 1979, ISBN 067124633X), the tale of
Ruslan, a guard dog in a Soviet Gulag labor camp, told by the
dog.
His novel General i yego armiya (“The General and His Army”),
on General Vlasov, was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 1995
and Sakharov Prize in 2000.
