Georgi Vladimov
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Georgi Nikolaevich Vladimov (Volosevich) (February 19 1931 Kharkov 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 (Vernyi Ruslan), 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.
