Grimm, Yuri Leonidovich (April 16, 1935, Moscow - August 13, 2011, Filippovo , Tver Region ) - Soviet dissident , political prisoner.
After graduating from high school and serving in the army, he worked as a crane operator on a tower crane .
In 1963, together with his friend Boris Kasyanov, he distributed about 500 leaflets demanding the resignation of N. S. Khrushchev and criticism of his policies. On January 11, 1964 he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, and then was sentenced to 6 years in prison. He was serving his sentence in a colony in Mordovia . Subsequently, the sentence was reduced to 3 years in prison and in 1966 Grimm was released.
After his release, he worked at the Research Institute of Sports and Spectacular Facilities in Moscow, managing a photo laboratory.
In 1975, Grimm decided to emigrate from the USSR, which motivated his minor son with a serious illness. But they did not allow him to emigrate and fired him from work. He could not get a job in the specialty and worked as a laborer .
Grimm signed a letter in defense of Sergei Kovalev in 1976, co-edited the 1977 samizdat collection Around the Draft Constitution, and in 1978 joined the appeal on the tenth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia . In 1978, Grimm became one of the co-editors of the Samizdat magazine Searches . In this regard, he was subjected to searches, interrogations, detention, administrative arrest, actual house arrest.
On January 23, 1980, he was arrested on charges of disseminating "knowingly false fabrications defaming the Soviet state and social system." In October 1980, he was sentenced to three years in prison in a maximum security colony. He served his sentence in a colony in Surgut . During the conclusion, he made a good impression on the KGB officer A. Petrushin, who spoke with him [1] . In 1982, after a declaration of abandonment of “anti-Soviet activity” he was released on parole with mandatory involvement in labor in the Tyumen region (the so-called “chemistry”).
After his release, he lived in Moscow, wrote memoirs.