Chronology of events 1980-1982

Compiled by Yuli Kosharovsky and Enid Wurtman.

Employed Abbreviations: AA – the archive of the author; d.o.r.  - Date of record (not the event); TM- a telephone message from Moscow in real time.

The sources of information are listed below. The numbers of the sources are placed in The Chronology  in parentheses.

1. Морозов Борис, “Еврейская эмиграция в свете новых документов“, “Центр Каммингса”, “Тель Авивский Университет”, “ЦХСД”, 1998.
2. Энн Шенкарь, Бюллетень “Комитета действия” (англ.).
3. “Википедия“, http://ru.wikipedia.org .
4. “Еврейская электронная энциклопедия” http://www.eleven.co.il .
5. Краткая Еврейская Энциклопедия, том.8, “Общество по исследованию еврейских общин”, “Еврейский университет в Иерусалиме”, Иерусалим, 1996.
6. Jewish Encyclopedia, CD-Rom Edition
7. Friedman, Murray and Chernin, Albert, Editors, “A Second Exodus, The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews“, Hanover, Brandeis University Press, 1999.
8. Gilbert, Martin, “Shcharansky, Hero of Our Time“, London, Macmillan London Limited, 1986.
9. Levin, Nora, “The Jews in the Soviet Union since 1917, Paradox of Survival“, Volume I, Volume II, New York and London, New York University Press, 1988.
10. Prital David, “Jews of the FSU in Israel and Diaspora“.
11. Soviet Jewish Affairs, Chronicle of Events, Sources are Western Press reports, unless specifically stated.
12. Rosenfeld Nancy “Unfinished Journey”.
13. Eizen, Wendy, “Count Us In, The Struggle to Free Soviet Jews”, A Canadian Perspective, Toronto, Burgher Books, 1995.
14. Washington Post.
15. Wurtman Enid, Articles in “Jerusalem Post” and audiocassettes of telephone talks with refuseniks in Russia.
16. Schroeter, Leonard, “The Last Exodus“, Jerusalem, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Jerusalem, 1974.
17. Insight, 70 Years of Soviet Union.
18. Нехемия Леванон, Код Натив, Ам овед, 1995, иврит.
19. Юлий Кошаровский, “Мы снова евреи“, том 1, 2007.
20. “Антиеврейские процессы в Советском Союзе 1969-1971 годов“, Издание Еврейского университета в Иерусалиме и Центра исследований восточноевропейского еврейства 1979 год.
21. Пинкус Вениамин, “Национальное возрождение“, Центр наследия Бен-Гуриона, 1993, иврит.
22. Интервью автору.
23. “Сборник писем, петиций и обращений“, “Центр по изучению восточноевропейского еврейства”.
24. Shindler, Colin, “Exit Visa, Détente, Human Rights and the Jewish Emigration Movement in the USSR“, London, Bachman and Turner, 1978.
25. Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. Newsletter.
26. Gilbert, Martin, “The Jews of Hope, The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today“, London, Macmillan London Limited, 1984.
27. Файн Вениамин, “Вера и разум“, Маханаим, Иерусалим 2007.
28. Bulleten UCSJ “Alert“.
29. Lerner, Alexander, “Change of Heart“, Minneapolis, Lerner Publication Company, Rehovot, Balaban Publishers, 1992.
30. Lein, Evgeny “Lest we forget“.
31. Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry, Israel, Profile.
32. Gilbert, Martin, “The Jews of Hope, The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today” London, Macmillian London Limited, 1984.
33. Joel L. Lebowitz, James S.Langer, William I. Glaberson, Editors, “Fourth International conference on collective fenomena“, Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, Published by The New York Academy of Science, ANYAA9 337, 1-223, 1980.
34. Loel L. Lebowitz, Editor, “Fourth International conference on collective fenomena“, Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, Published by The New York Academy of Science, ANYAA9 373, 1-233, 1981.
35. Давид Зильберман, “Голодная демонстрация советских евреев в Москве 10-11 марта 1971 года, Дневник демонстранта, Сказание об исходе из России, Нацрат Элит, Израиль, 1971 год.
36. Инна Аксельрод-Рубина “Жизнь как жизнь, воспоминания“, Иерусалим 2006.
37. Информационный бюллетень по вопросам репатриации и еврейской культуры, еврейский информационный центр в Москве.
38. Jerusalem post, Soviet Jewry, Jewish World by Enid Wurtman.
39. Александр Парицкий, “Молитва”, Иерусалим 2006, Verba Pablishers, Jerusalem.
40. Evgeny Lein, Lest we forget, The Refuseniks struggle and World Jewish Solidarity, The Jerusalem publishing cebter, Jerusalem, 1997.
41. Anatoly Adamishin and Richard Schifter, Human Rights, Perestroika, and The End of The Cold War, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC, 2009
42. Baruch Gur, Open Gates, The Inside Story of the Mass Aliya from the Soviet Union and its Successor States, Jewish Agence for Israel, printet by Graphit, Jerusalem 1996.
43. Lois Rosenblum interviews: Rosenblum Oral History Project: In­volvement in the Soviet Jewry movement, interviews with Louis Rosenblum, 1996-1999, Louis Rosenblum Pap­ers, MS 4926, Jewish Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society.
44. Jerry Goodman, Jews in the Soviet Union and the American Soviet Jewry Movement – A Time Line of Historic Events,  1917-1991.
45. Pam Cohen, Time Line of the Soviet Jewry movement.

00/01/1980	Leonid Volvovsky is expelled from Moscow. (22, Leonid Volvovsky).
04/01/1980	In a declaration on the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter announces the deferment of further consideration of the SALT 2 treaty in Congress, and a decision to halt or reduce U.S. exports to the USSR, including grain. Carter also raises the problem of the participation of Americans in the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980. (11, vol. 10, # 2, 1980, p. 95).
12/01/1980	In an interview with the newspaper “Pravda”, Leonid Brezhnev justified intervention of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and said that the U.S. is absolutely an unreliable partner in international relations. (11, vol. 10, # 2, 1980, p. 98).
12/01/1980	According to a report of the Inter-Government Committee for European Migration a record 51,300 Jews – emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1979. 17,489 went to Israel and 33,914 to the USA. (11, vol. 10, # 2, 1980, p. 98).
14/01/1980	The UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to condemn Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. (11, vol. 10, # 2, 1980, p. 96).
17/01/1980	The Olympic Committee of the Presidium of the Second Brussels Conference on Soviet Jewry meets in London. (11, vol. 10, # 2, 1980, p. 98).
22/01/1980	Expulsion of Andrei Sakharov, noted physicist and human rights advocate, from Moscow to Gorky after protesting the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan.  Sakharov is an outspoken supporter of Jewish refuseniks and their right to leave for Israel. (13, p. 146; 44).
31/01/1980	The second issue of a Jewish samizdat publication “Law and Reality” appears in Riga. The first issue appeared in October 1979. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 10, # 2, 1980, p.98).
19/02 /1980	Writing in the Byleorussian Zvyazda(Star) the Soviet anti-Zionist /antisemitic writer V. Ya.  Begun attacks the World Jewish Congress as an anticommunist, racist and subversive organization. (11, vol. 10, # 2, 1980, p.98).
11/03/1980	Igor Guberman, editor of Jewish samizdat magazine “Jews in the USSR”, is sentenced in Dimitrov (near Moscow) to five years’ imprisonment and confiscation of property on charges of trading in stolen icons. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p.88).
15.03.1980	The Union of Council for Soviet Jews convenes an international consultation in London and in Israel, meeting with officials and local groups to coordinate efforts and discuss strategies and programs to defend Soviet Jews.
18/03/1978	Two London Jewish tourists, who visited Leningrad, reported that after meeting with refuseniks, they were attacked and beaten up by a gang of hooligans. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p.88).
07/04/1980	Refusenik Isaac Zlotver, father of the Zionist movement activist Luba Zlotver, died in Sverdlovsk. (22, Luba Zlotver).
12/04/1980	The 4th three-day International Conference on Collective Phenomena based on the Physics and Mathematics seminar of refuseniks was held in Moscow on April 12-14th and attended by 40 Soviet Jewish and 24 Western scientists in the home of Victor Brailovsky. 27 reports were presented to the conference, among them 16 from abroad. New York Academy of Sciences released a compilation of reports placed in the volume 373 of the Academy annals. (34).
13/04/1980	Renowned activist and Hebrew teacher Leonid Volvovsky is arrested in Kishinev for “vagrancy”. (Alert, 13/05/1980).
16/04/1980	Kiev refusenik Ivan Oleynik, arrested on March 13th, 1980, is imprisoned for twelve months on charges of “malicious hooliganism”. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 89).
16/04/1980	Amner Zavurov, a refusenik from Dushanbe, sentenced in 1976 to three years’ imprisonment in a labor camp (subsequently increased by six months), is released. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 89).
16/04/1980	The Presidium of the Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry meets in Paris for two days. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 89).
24/04/1980	56 scientists of the European Nuclear Research Center in Geneva and more than 800 American scientists appeal to the Soviet authorities to permit the refusenik, mathematician Naum Meiman to emigrate. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 89).
24/04/1980	On April 24th-27th, The European Union of Jewish Students holds a seminar on Soviet Jewry in Amsterdam. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 89).
25/04/1980	The mother and brother of Anatoly Sharansky are allowed to visit Anatoly for 24 hours in his new billet in Perm Labor Camp 35. The visit was cut from three days. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 89).
27/04/1980	100,000 people attend the ninth annual Solidarity Day rally of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p.89).
28/04/1980	Moisei Tonkonogy, Odessa, is sentenced to a year in custody “for parasitism”. His parents and sister went to Israel in 1973, but he was denied an exit visa due to his previous service in the Red Army as a private. He was arrested on February 11th, 1980. (28, 05/13/80).
30/04/1980	Odessa Refusenik Vladimir Korner is imprisoned for 12 months on charges of “parasitism”. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 89).
05/05/1980	“The British National Council for Soviet Jewry holds a day of sporting events in Birmingham in its “Competing for Freedom” campaign. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 90).
12/05/1980	2,469 Jews from the USSR in April, the lowest number since the beginning of the year. 2,800 in January; 3,023 in February; 3,049 in March. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p.90).
12/05/1980	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s annual Samuel Rothberg Prize in Jewish Education is awarded this year to the Soviet  Jewish activists Yosef Begun and Lev Ulanovsky for their contribution to the teaching of Hebrew in the USSR. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 90).
12/05/1980	The Fourth Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe takes place in Brussels on May 12th-18th. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 87).
12/05/1980	The International Tribunal in Amsterdam declared a miscarriage of justice in the Shcharansky trial. (28, 06/06/80).
12/05/1980	A conference on behalf of Anatoly Sharansky takes place in Amsterdam on May 12th-13th. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 90).
15/05/1980	The Committee of Nine meets in Washington for two days (The Committee, comprising representatives of the Israeli government, the Jewish Agency and American Jewish organizations was established in July 1976 in connection with the problem of Soviet Jewish “drop-outs”.), (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 90).
22/05/1980	The Israel Olympic Committee decides to join the boycott of the Moscow Olympics.  (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p.88).
23/05/1980	The European Parliament adopts a resolution demanding the release of Anatoly Sharansky. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p.90).
23/05/1980	The British All-Party Parliamentary Committee for Soviet Jewry, institutes an annual award in recognition of “outstanding services for the release of Soviet Jewry”. The award will take the form of a lithograph donated by the artist, Henry Moore. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 90).
29/05/1980	The American Jewish Committee establishes an annual fellowship in honor of the Soviet human rights activist Andrei Sakharov. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 90).
01/06/1980	A conference on the status of Jews and the impact of anti-Semitism is convened at Columbia University. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 90).
02/06/1980	Tashkent Refusenik Shmuel Rosenberg, 51, is sentenced to five years imprisonment on charges of bribery. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 90).
02/06/1980	Chernovtsy Refusenik Moshe Zats, a construction engineer, is sentenced to three years imprisonment in a labor camp and confiscation of property for alleged economic crimes. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p.90-91).
06/06/1980	On the initiative of the French Socialist Party, a European Parliamentarians conference on Soviet Jewry is held in Paris. The conference agrees to demand the inclusion of the issue of Soviet Jewry on the agenda of the November CSCE follow-up conference in Madrid, to set up a permanent European coordination committee, and to send a fact-finding delegation to the USSR. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 91).
20/06/1980	Refusenik Valery Pilnikov, 42, an electrical engineer, is sentenced in Kiev to five years imprisonment in labor camps. (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p.91).
25/06/1980	Gregory Freiman, a professor of mathematics at Kalinin University and author of a samizdat account on anti-Jewish discrimination in Soviet mathematics, is dismissed from his post at the university. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 10, # 3, 1980, p. 91).
02/07/1980	Moscow Jewish dissident Vladimir Gershuni is confined to a psychiatric hospital in what appears to be a move designed to keep him from circulation during the Olympic Games (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 98).
02/07/1980	Kiev activist Vladimir Kislik was forcibly committed to a mental hospital in Kiev, after being sentenced previously to 15 days for disorderly conduct. (Alert, July 25, 1980).
04/07/1980	Veteran Kiev refusenik Vladimir Kislik is sentenced to 15 days imprisonment on charges of “hooliganism”.  (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p.98)
06/07/1980	An hour-long television film entitled “Lies and Hatred” warns Soviet citizens to beware of CIA agents and “agents of Zionism” disguised as Olympic visitors.  (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p.98).
06/07/1980	Moisei Zats’ appeal is rejected and his sentence confirmed. (see June 6th). (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 98).
06/07/1980	A film “Lies and Hatred” was shown by Soviet TV as a prelude to the Olympic Games. (Alert, 25/07/1980).
14/07/1980	Arrest of Grigory Geishis, Leningrad, for refusing to serve in the army. The verdict – 2 years imprisonment. (22, Aba Taratuta).
14.07.1980	1,767 Soviet Jews arrived in Austria in June 1980 compared with 4,350 in June, 1979. (d.o.r.),  (11, p.98).
14/07/1980	Soviet refuseniks Vladimir Brodsky, Igor Vinogradov, Dina Grossman, Katerina Umanskaya and Maria Zeidel write to Lord Kilian, President of the International Olympic Committee, appealing for help. The first three announce their intention of holding a hunger strike to coincide with the beginning of the Olympic Games. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 99).
15/07/1980	Yuli Kosharovsky was summoned to the KGB and threatened in connection with the proposed inter-city teachers seminar in Koktebel. (aa).
16/07/1980	Activist Dmitry Shtiglik, Moscow, was convicted and sentenced to 15 days imprisonment for “hooliganism”. (Alert, 25/07/1980.)
16/07/1980	Valery Sulimov, a refusenik from Riga, was forcibly confined to a psychiatric hospital after applying to the employment office to provide him a job without access to classified information. (Alert, 30/09/1980).
19/07/1980	Vladimir Kislik is transferred from administrative detention in prison and committed to a psychiatric hospital in Kiev for staging a hunger strike against being held in prison for an additional 15 days. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p.99).
19/07/1980	Moscow refuseniks Vladimir Brodsky, Dina Grossman and Igor Vinogradov hold a hunger strike to protest the authorities’ refusal to grant them exit visas. The hunger strike lasted until August 2nd. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 99).
19/07/1980	XXII Olympic Games solemnly opened in Moscow and lasted until August 3rd.
20/07/1980	PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat visited the Olympic Village in Moscow. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, page 97).
31/07/1980	Moscow refusenik Dr. Yuri Gelfand, 58, an electrodynamics specialist, is reinstated at the Soviet Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 99).
08/08/1980	Leningrad refusenik Grigory Geishis, 20, arrested on July 14th on a charge of draft evasion, is sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in a labor camp. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 99).
23/08/1980	Yosef Begun, sentenced June  28th, 1978 to three years’ exile, is released. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, 99).
26/08/1980	For the first time in seven years, the USSR begins jamming Russian-language broadcasts of the BBC, Voice of America and Deutsche Welle. The jamming coincides with the proliferation of workers’ strikes in Poland. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p.97).
27/08/1980	Several hundred Soviet Jewish immigrants declare a strike at three absorption centers in the Haifa area in protest of absorption processes. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p.99).
28/08/1980	The dissident Russian Orthodox priest Gleb Yakunin is sentenced by a Moscow court to five years’ deprivation of freedom and five years’ internal exile. (d.o.r.)  (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981,  p. 99).
31/08/1980	The dissident Tatiana Velikanova, a mathematician and a leading member of the human rights movement in the USSR, is sentenced in Moscow to four years’ imprisonment and five years’ exile. (d.o.r.),  ( 11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 99).
00/09/1980	The second inter-city Hebrew teachers seminar was held in Koktebel, Crimea. The seminar was attended by over 50 teachers from 9 cities. (aa).
04/09/1980	The International Sakharov’s Tribunal of Conscience and Peace is held in The Hague on 4th-5th of September. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 99).
09/09/1980	Representatives of 35 signatories which signed the Helsinki Final Act  begin a preliminary session  in Madrid to verify compliance with the provisions of the Agreement. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p.97).
09/09/1980	KGB officers went to the apartment of Victor Brailovsky, Moscow, four times during one day. (Alert, 14/09/1980).
15/09/1980	Yuli Kosharovsky was arrested in Koktebel for 13 days for “hooliganism” during the inter-city Hebrew teachers seminar. (Alert, 24/09/1980).
19/09/1980	Yosef Begun, freed from exile, is denied registration as a resident of Moscow. (28, 09/24/80).
19/09/1980	53 year old Moscow refusenik Dmitri Shchiglik, a mechanical engineer, is sentenced to one year imprisonment on charges of “parasitism.” (28, 09/24/80).
26/09/1980	Refusenik Alexander Vilig, sentenced in February 1979 to 18 months’ imprisonment on a charge of draft evasion, is released. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981,  p. 99).
06/10/1980	Refuseniks Yacov Ariev and Haim Solovey from Riga, and Isai Minkin from Moscow, hold a hunger strike from 6thto 11th of October in protest against the authorities’ refusal to grant them exit visas. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 100).
15/10/1980	1,030 Soviet Jews emigrated from the USSR in September 1980. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981,  p.100).
16/10/1980	A boycott of cooperation with the USSR is announced by Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky (SOS) Committee simultaneously in London, Paris, Washington and Geneva as part of a world-wide protest against the jailing of Orlov and Shcharansky and the banishment of Sakharov. About 7,900 scientists and engineers in 44 countries will participate in the boycott. 150 scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce on the same day that they will take part in the boycott. (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 100).
24/10/1980	Leningrad refuseniks Lev Furman, Yuli Karolin and Isaac Kogan send a telegram of sympathy with the Jews of France in connection with the attack on the rue Copernic Synagogue in Paris. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 11, # 1, 1981, p. 100).
31/10/1980	Isaac Moshcowitz is arrested in Kharkov. (28, 19/11/80).
04/11/1980	More than 300 Soviet Jews sign an open letter to President Brezhnev accusing the Soviet government of paying lip service to the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and failing to honor the commitments on emigration. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p.97).
11/11/1980	The first phase of the Conference on monitoring the implementation of CSCE agreements was held in Madrid from the 11th to 19th of November. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 96). Madrid Conference continues with intervals until September 1983 (40, p. 236). Forum opens with the US delegation headed by Ambassador Max Kampelman. For several months, the World Conference on Soviet Jewry with the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, and others from European countries, as well as the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews and Helsinki Watch, maintain an ongoing presence, circulating documents, organizing special events, meeting delegates, and briefing the media. (44). Many Jews in Moscow, Kiev, Kharkov and other Soviet cities hold a hunger strike to coincide with the CSCE Madrid Conference in protest against the recent cutback in Jewish emigration from the USSR from November 11th -14th.
14/11/1980	1,424 Soviet Jews emigrated in October. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p.97).
13/11/1980	Victor Brailovsky, editor of the samizdat journal “Jews in the USSR” and organizer of the unofficial scientific symposia, is arrested.  (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p.97).
29/11/1980	Simon Shnirman, 25, a refusenik from Zaporozhye, is released on completion of a two and a half year prison sentence on charges of evading military conscription. (d.o.r.),  (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 97).
30/11/1980	For the second successive Sunday police prevent Moscow refuseniks from attending the unofficial scientific seminar in the apartment of Victor Brailovsky. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 97).
01/12/1980	Yosef Mendelevich, the last of the Jewish prisoners in the First Leningrad trial, who is still in prison, begins a hunger strike. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981,  p.97- 98).
01.12.1980	789 Jews emigrate in November.  (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p.98).
11/12/1980	150 Jewish activists demonstrate at the Supreme Soviet offices in Moscow, demanding action on their applications for emigration. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
13/12/1980	In a statement to foreign correspondents, Andrei Sakharov calls for the release of Victor Brailovsky, the Jewish activist arrested on November 13th. (d.o.r.),  (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
15/12/1980	Representatives of the authorities interrupt Hebrew lessons in the apartments of Shakhnovsky, Kosharovsky and Gorodetsky in Moscow. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
15/12/1980	The documentary film “Zionism Street” has its premiere in Moscow. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
16/12/1980	Representatives of the authorities in Moscow visit the unofficial kindergarten for Jewish children in Moscow ordering the teachers to close it and send the children home. (d.o.r.), ( 11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
18/12/1980	Former Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin dies at the age of 76. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 96).
24/12/1980	Five Jewish activists are sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment on charges of hooliganism for demonstrating at the Lenin Library in solidarity with Prisoners of Zion. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
28/12/1980	Yona Kolchinsky was forewarned that he will be called up for military service beginning from December 29th this year.
29/12/1980	Nadezhda Mandelshtam, the widow of the poet Osip Mandelshtam, dies in Moscow, aged 81. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
00.00.1981	Vladimir Zukerman, 34, Odessa, was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. He was sentenced to three years in labor camps.
01/01/1981	889 Jews left the Soviet Union in December, 1980. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p.98).
03.01.1981	6, 880 ethnic Germans emigrated from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1980 (in 1979 – 7,226) (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p.98).
04.01.1981	Aeronautics engineer Lev Roitburd, the last of 18 in the list submitted by Senator Edward Kennedy to President Brezhnev in 1978, arrives in Israel with his family. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
06.01.1981	Parcels sent by post to refuseniks from Israel and the West are sent back by the Soviet authorities. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
07.01.1981	A record 6030 Armenians left the USSR in 1980. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
27.01.1981	The second meeting of the CSCE to monitor compliance with the Helsinki Accords was opened in Madrid. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
28.01.1981	UCSJ Congressional Briefing. (45).
02.02.1981	The Catholic University of Louvain conferred an honorary doctorate degree on the refusenik-scientist Victor Brailovsky. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 98).
09.02.1981	The first International Conference of Jewish Women’s Organizations for Soviet Jewry is held in Madrid. The conference, which lasted three days (February 9th – 11th ), was attended by 40 delegates representing 14 countries, adopt a  declaration of intended action. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p.99).
11.02.1981	XIX  Israeli Communist Party Congress opens in Haifa. The Congress was attended by delegations from Socialist countries including the USSR. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p. 97).
18.02.1981	Yosef Mendelevich, 34, the last of the nine Jews jailed in the Leningrad trial, arrives in Israel. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981, p.97).
23.02.1981	XXVI Congress of the CPSU is held in Moscow. The Congress lasted through March 3rd. (11, vol. 11, # 2, 1981,  p. 97).
01.03.1981	1,407 Jews left the USSR in February.
00.03.1981	The authorities are putting pressure on Hebrew teachers Yuli Kosharovsky and Pavel Abramovich. They are threatened with arrest. (28, 03.31.81).
07.03.1981	Leningrad student Boris Kalendarov is released from a labor camp after serving two-years’ imprisonment for draft evasion. (see May 14, 1979). (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 95).
13.03.1981	Dr. Irina Brailovsky is warned by the deputy chairman of her local municipal council, that she and her family will be liable to internal exile if she continues to host the Moscow seminars for Jewish refusenik scientists. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 95).
13.03.1981	Odessa refusenik Moisei Tongonogy,  sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for “parasitism”, is released. (d.o.r.), (see May 6, 1980), (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 95).
16.03.1981	Ida Milgrom sent a letter to Leonid Brezhnev in defense of her son, Anatoly Shcharansky.
17.03.1981	Well-known dissident Anatoly Marchenko is arrested again in Moscow.  (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981,  p. 95).
18.03.1981	Kim Fridman, refusenik from Kiev, was arrested on charges of resisting police and imprisoned for 10 days. At the end of the day he was transferred to the detention center on charges of conducting a “parasitic way of life”. On May 18th he will be sentenced to one year imprisonment for parasitism. (22, interview to the Author).
19.03.1981	Kiev refusenik Vladimir Kislik, a 46 year old nuclear physicist, is arrested on charges of “malicious hooliganism”. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 95).
01.04.1981	1,249 Jews left the USSR in March.  (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p.96).
02.04.1981	75 British academics sign a letter to Soviet Minister of Culture Petr Demichev protesting the repeated harassment of Hebrew teachers and students in the Soviet Union. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 96).
02.04.1981	Tatyana Osipova, 32, a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, is sentenced to five years imprisonment in a labor camp and five years’ internal exile on charges of conducting “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 96).
02.04.1981	Anatoly Shcharansky, the Jewish Prisoner of Zion, who is serving a sentence in a Urals labor camp, informs his mother that in January 1981 he was sentenced to six months’ solitary confinement, and deprived of family visits in 1981. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 96).
27.04.1981	UCSJ sponsors 50th birthday event for Ida Nudel in exile. (45).
27.04.1981	The Soviet authorities prevent the holding of the cybernetics seminar organized by the refusenik,  Professor Alexander Lerner in his apartment. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 96).
01.05.1981	1,155 Jews left the USSR in April.  (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p.96).
03.05.1981	The Soviet authorities prevent many Moscow Jews from leaving their homes to stop them from celebrating  Israel Independence Day and from honoring victims of Nazi persecutions in a forest near Moscow. (11. vol. 11, #3, 1981, P. 96).
05.05.1981	Meeting of CSCE has resumed its work in Madrid. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, 94).
10.05.1981	Moscow refusenik Boris Chernobilsky, a 37 year old radio engineer, is arrested and later temporarily released, on charges of “resisting the police” in the Opalii forest near Moscow, where Moscow refuseniks gathered for a commemorative meeting after the authorities had banned the use of another forest. (see May 3rd) (11, p. 96).
10.05.1981	The Brailovsky seminar on Collective Phenomena is again stopped by the KGB. Some 25 scientists, including eight from abroad, are turned away. Later scientists conduct the seminar at the apartment of Yuri Gelfand. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 96).
10.05.1981	Riga Jews gather in the Rumbuli woods to commemorate the Holocaust victims. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p.  96).
11.05.1981	Closing of the Alexander Lerner seminar. (29, p. 194).
13.05.1981	Avital Shcharansky, wife of Prisoner of Zion Anatoly Shcharansky, is received by US Secretary of State Alexander Haig.  (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p.96).
15.05.1981	Thirteen Jews in Kishinev hold a fast on Israel’s Remembrance Day in protest against the authorities’ refusal to allow them to emigrate to Israel. (d.o.r.),  (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 96).
16.05.1981	Kiev refusenik Stanislav Zubko, a 43-year old candidate of chemical sciences, is arrested on charges of possessing fire-arms and drugs. (8, p. 427, 11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 96).
17.05.1981	Leningrad police raid a seminar on Jewish history in the apartment of Grigory Vasserman. Four participants are arrested, three of them were subsequently sentenced to 15 days’ imprisonment. The fourth, Evgeny Lein, is held on charges of “resisting police in the execution of their duty”. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 96).
18.05.1981	Kiev refusenik Kim Fridman is sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in a labor camp on charges of “parasitism”. (see March 28). (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 97).
19.05.1981	The Nathan and Lily Silver Chair for Mathematical Analysis and Operator Theory is  established at Tel Aviv University to promote the work of Russian immigrant mathematicians.(d.o.r.) (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 97).
19.05.1981	68 scientists from eight countries, including 13 Nobel Laureates, form an International  Committee for the Defense of Victor Brailovsky. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981,  p. 97).
21.05.1981	Jews denied exit visas on the grounds that they have no close relatives in Israel are informed by the Kiev OVIR that their files will not be reconsidered. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 97).
27.05.1981	President Reagan receives Avital Shcharansky and Yosef Mendelevich, who was recently released from a Soviet prison after serving an 11- year sentence. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981,  p. 97).
27.05.1981	Kiev refusenik Vladimir Kislik is sentenced to three years in a labor camp “for malicious hooliganism”. (see March 19), (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 97).
30.05.1981	Kishinev refuseniks Vladimir Zukerman, a 34 year old naval engineer, and Osip Lokshin, a 39 year old lawyer, are arrested when a group of refuseniks meets outside the local synagogue for a protest march. They are charged with “violating public order”. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 97).
01.06.1981	1,141 Jews left the Soviet Union in May. (11,p.97).
03.06.1981	The Presidium of the Brussels Conference on Soviet Jewry (meeting in Brussels) decides to reconvene the World Conference in Brussels in May 1982. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981,  p. 97).
05.06.1981	Vladimir Kislik appeals against his three  year sentence in a general regime labor camp. (see May 27th) (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 97).
11.06.1981	Kim Friedman’s appeal was dismissed; the court upheld a sentence of 1 year imprisonment. (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 97).
18.06.1981	Moscow activist Victor Brailovsky, 45, is sentenced to five years’ internal exile for “systematically fabricating and distributing works denigrating the Soviet state and social system”.  His sentence is reduced to 39 months on account of his seven months in detention (in Soviet law a month in jail is equivalent to three months in exile). (11, vol. 11,  #3, 1981, p.97)
19.06.1981	Grigory Vasserman, at whose Leningrad apartment a seminar on Jewish culture was held on May 17th, is fined 50 rubles for “disseminating religious propaganda to minors”. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 11, #3, 1981, p. 97).
01.07.1981	850 Jews left the Soviet Union in June.  (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p.100).
13.07.1981	Judith Lerner, wife of Professor Alexander Lerner and long time refusenik, died in Moscow. (29, p. 213).
13.07.1981	Refuseniks Victor Brailovsky and Ida Nudel, both serving sentences of internal exile in the USSR, are presented in absentia with a special award by the Speaker of the British House of Commons on behalf of the All-Party Parliamentary Committee for Soviet Jewry.  (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p.100).
15.07.1981	Soviet dissident Irina Grivina, a member of the committee set up to monitor the abuse of psychiatry in the USSR, is sentenced to five years’ internal exile on charges of “knowingly disseminating false fabrications discrediting the Soviet social and political order”. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 100).
16.07.1981	Moscow geneticist Samuel Rombe is arrested in Gorky on charges of speculation for profit. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 100).
16.07.1981	Sonia Lerner-Levin, of Rehovot, Israel, the daughter of veteran refusenik Professor Alexander Lerner, receives permission to visit the Soviet Union for five days to attend the funeral of her mother, Judith Lerner. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 100.)
17.07.1981	An appeal court upholds Vladimir Kislik’s sentence of three years’ imprisonment in a labor camp. (See May 27th 1981), (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 100).
22.07.1981	Kiev refusenik Stanisav Zubko, 43 year old Candidate of Chemical Sciences, is sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in a strict regime labor camp on charges of possessing firearms and drugs. (see May 16th 1981), (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 100).
01.08.1981	779 Jews emigrated from the USSR in July 1981. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 100).
05.08.1981	Leningrad refusenik, mathematician Evgeny Lein, 42, is sentenced to two years’ corrective labor by the city’s Kalinin district court on charges of “assaulting a militiaman carrying out his duties”. The trial was held on August 4th and 5th.  (See May 17th, 1981). (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982,  p. 100; 30, p. 35, p. 45).
22.08.1981	A film, “The Statute of Limitations Does Not Apply” on the anti-Soviet alliance of Ukrainian and Polish nationalists and Zionists – is premiered on Ukrainian TV. (11. vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
26.08.1981	Ivan Kovalev, one of the four remaining active members of the Moscow group monitoring Soviet human rights abuses, is arrested in Moscow on a charge of anti-Soviet agitation. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
26.08.1981	A six-person Israeli delegation attends the Moscow International Book Fair. The fair is held from September  2nd until September 8th. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982,  99).
28.08.1981	Refusenik Alexander Paritsky, 43 year old electronics engineer, is arrested in Kharkov and accused of defaming the Soviet State. Prior to and after his arrest his apartment was searched. Paritsky was one of the leaders of the underground unofficial Jewish University in Kharkov. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
01.09.1981	Kiev refusenik Mark Chernyatsky, his wife and twelve-year-son begin a hunger strike in protest against the authorities’ refusal to grant them exit visas. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
01.09.1981	430 Jews left the Soviet Union in August. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
02.09.1981	The trial of well-known Soviet dissident Anatoly Marchenko took place in Vladimir September 2nd – 4th.  He is sentenced to ten years’ deprivation of freedom and five years’ exile on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda carried out with the aim of undermining the Soviet regime. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
02.09.1981	“The Third Moscow International Book Fair” takes place September 2nd-8th with  participation of the Israeli delegation. Several books of Jewish interest were confiscated by the censors.  The Israeli pavilion is very popular among Soviet Jews. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101). The Israeli delegation consisted of 5 persons: Rafi Neemat, David Sorek, Arie Aharoni , Eruham Golan and Sarale Sharon, a well-known Israeli singer. The Israeli pavilion presented around 1000 books to the public. (22, Dita Gurevich)
10.09.1981	About ten principal lecturers of the unofficial scientific seminars run by refusenik academics in Moscow Irina Brailovsky, Alexander Lerner, Alexander Ioffe, Yakov Alpert, and Yuli Kosharovsky are warned  by the KGB that they will be expelled from Moscow and exiled if they continue their activities. (d.o.r.),  (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
10.09.1981	The fifth International Seminar on the Collective Phenomena”, which was scheduled to open in late September in the Brailovsky apartment, is canceled. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
15.09.1981	Dmitri Schiglik, sentenced in July 1980 to one year in a labor camp for “parasitism”, was released in August.  (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
15.09.1981	An appeal court upholds the sentence of four years’ imprisonment imposed on Stanislav Zubko (see July 22nd, 1981). (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
18.09.1981	Six Nobel Prize Laureates, including Menachem Begin and Henry Kissinger, appeal to President Brezhnev to free Academician Andrei Sakharov. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
21.09.1981	Sverdlovsk refusenik Lev Shefer, a 50 year old engineer, and Vladimir Yelchin are arrested on charges of defaming the Soviet State. (d.o.r.) (28 of 23.10.81; 11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
21.09.1981	The 45th Congress of the International PEN-Club, held September 21st-25th, adopts a resolution protesting against the Soviet government’s suppression of the Hebrew language and its attempts to extinguish the spiritual life of Soviet Jews. The resolution is approved by 400 delegates. The representatives of seven Eastern European States abstain in the vote. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982,  p. 101).
22.09.1981	A trial is held in the Moldovian Supreme Court of Kishinev refuseniks Vladimir Zukerman, a 34 year old naval engineer and Osip Lokshin, a 39 year old lawyer. They are sentenced to three years general regime labor camps on charges of “organizing and taking an active part in group actions violating public order”. “The trial was held on September 22nd-23rd (see May 30th 1981). (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 102).
22.09.1981	Evgeny Lein’s appeal against his conviction is rejected. (See August 5th 1981).  (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 101).
23.09.1981	KGB officials search the home of Roald Zelichonok’s apartment in  Leningrad  in connection with arrests of Yelchin and Shefer in Sverdlovsk. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 102).
24.09.1981	Despite cordons of militia, four Jews from Odessa managed to lay a wreath at the monument to the victims of the Nazis in Babi Yar to commemorate the forthcoming 40th anniversary of Nazi massacre . Five Jews from Kiev, Leningrad and Moscow who attempted to reach Babi Yar were arrested and sentenced to 10 – 15 days imprisonment on charges of “hooliganism”. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982,  p. 102).
24.09.1981	Israeli Foreign Minister  Yitzhak Shamir and the Soviet Union Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met at the UN building in New York to discuss the peace process in the Middle East and bilateral relations. Shamir also raised the issues of Jewish emigration to Israel and Prisoners of Zion.
25.09.1981	Ukrainian television shows a new documentary film, “Babi Yar: Lessons of History”. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 102).
01.10.1981	405 Jews left the USSR in September. (11, p. 102).
02.10.1981	Soviet authorities in Kharkov summon factory workers to special meetings to inform them that they have “unmasked” a Zionist movement in Kharkov. They say the movement’s members will shortly be put on trial. (d.o.r.)  (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 102).
06.10.1981	Special hearings on Soviet antisemitism are held on Capitol Hill. They are sponsored by the US Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 102).
12.10.1981	More than a hundred Moscow Hebrew teachers and their students wrote a letter of protest to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the systematic and continuous KGB persecution of refuseniks engaged in studying and teaching the language. Yuli Edelstein, Victor Fulmacht, Alexander Kholmianskii, Vladimir Kuravsky, Vladimir Magarik, Boris Teplitsky and others participated in this action. (28, 10.23.81).
14.10.1981	An average of 40 Armenians in a month are now permitted to emigrate to the USA to reunite with their families, compared with a monthly average of  477 for the 16 months from January 1980 to April 1981. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 102).
15.10.1981	Forty Moscow Jews appeal to President Leonid Brezhnev demanding the release of all those detained for attempting to pay their respects to Nazi victims at Babi Yar. (see September 24th-26th, 1981). (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 102).
15.10.1981	In what seems to be a full scale drive against private Hebrew teaching, KGB and militia raid the homes of four leading Moscow Jewish activists engaged in Hebrew teaching: Pavel Abramovich, Natalia Khasina, Yuli Kosharovsky and Leonid Tesmenitsky.  Printed materials, books, typewriters, tape recorders and tapes are confiscated. The searches are carried out ostensibly in connection with the cases of Shefer and Yelchin in Sverdlovsk. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982,  p. 102)
15.10.1981	Twelve-hour intensive search of the Yuli Kosharovsky’s apartment, followed by his  detention in the local bullpen in the case of Lev Shefer and Vladimir Yelchin (Sverdlovsk). He was released on the following day. ( 32 , page 103).
15.10.1981	Kharkov KGB demand Polina Paritsky stop her activities in support of her husband, Alexander, and threatened her with arrest. (28, 10.23.81).
16.10.1981	Moscow Hebrew teachers Boris Terlitzky, Yuli Edelstein, Victor Fulmacht, and Vladimir Kuravsky are warned to cease their activities. (d.o.r.), (11 , vol. 12, #1, 1982,  p. 102).
22.10.1981	The KGB carried out a search of the home of Vilnius activist Eitan Finkelstein in connection with the Sverdlovsk arrests. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982, p. 102).
23.10.1981	Massive pressure on the Hebrew teachers. KGB interrogates Hebrew teachers in various cities and demand that they stop teaching. Roald  Zelichonok, Leningrad, was taken to the KGB after the search; about 40 books were confiscated in his apartment in connection with the case of the Sverdlovsk teacher Lev Shefer. (28, 23.10.81).
25.10.1981	An emergency conference of leaders of the European Jewish communities discusses in Paris on October 25th-26th the deteriorating situation of Soviet Jews. The conference concluded with an appeal to European governments and European Parliament to treat the fate of Soviet Jewry as a problem of  international concern. (11, vol. 12, #1, 1982,  p. 103).
01.11.1981	In October 368 Jews left the USSR.
03.11.1981	Prisoner of Zion Anatoly Shcharansky is transferred from a labor camp in the Perm complex to Chistopol prison in Tatar Republic. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 86).
05.11.1981	Eighty more Hebrew teachers in Moscow are individually warned to stop teaching. Several are kept under constant police surveillance. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 86).
06.11.1981	Iosif Begun is arrested again.
07.11.1981	Cyberneticist Victor Brailovsky, exiled to Beyneu, Gurev oblast,  Kazakhstan, is assigned a job repairing calculators. (see August 14th 1981) (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 86).
08.11.1981	KGB agents in Leningrad bar students from entering the home of Hebrew teacher Yacov Rabinovich. Rabinovich is warned by the authorities to stop teaching or face arrest. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 86).
13.11.1981	Kharkov scientist-refusenik Alexander Paritsky is sentenced by the court following a three day trial on November 11th-13th to three years imprisonment “for slandering the Soviet State”. (39, p. 203).
16.11.1981	Kishinev television implies that refuseniks Vladimir Zukerman and Osip Lokshin currently serving three years’ sentences in general regime labor camps, passed on “secret information” to foreign journalists. (see Sept. 22nd-23rd 19 81) (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 86-87).
20.11.1981	Israeli President Yitzchak Navon appeals to a number of European heads of state to  intercede with the Soviet Union to allow Dr. Alexander Paritsky to immigrate to Israel. (see November 13th1981), (d.o.r.),  (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982,  p.87).
21.11.1981	Israeli athletes participating in the World Gymnastics Championship in Moscow are given a rapturous welcome by hundreds of Jews when they visit the Moscow central synagogue. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 87).
22.11.1981	Academician Andrei Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner hold a hunger strike to protest against the authorities’ refusal to grant an exit visa to their daughter-in-law, Lisa Alekseyeva. The hunger strike began on November 22nd and ended on December 8th after the Soviet authorities grant her permission to reunite with her Jewish husband in the U.S. A. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 87).
22.11.1981	Moscow refuseniks Leonid Tesmenitsky, a chemical engineer, and Vladimir Magarik, a computer expert, begin an indefinite hunger strike in protest against the authorities’ warnings not to attend or give Hebrew lessons. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982,  p. 87).
29.11.1981	Some 150 Jews assemble at Rumbuli, near Riga, to commemorate the fortieth  anniversary of the massacre of Jews by the Nazis. The police are present but not interfere. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 87).
01.12.1981	363 Jews left the Soviet Union in November. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p.87).
01.12.1981	Kiev refusenik Lev Elbert is warned that he is considered a “paid agent” of Zionism. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 87).
09.12.1981	Moscow refusenik Boris Chernobilsky, arrested on November 26th, is sentenced to 12 months in a general regime labor camp on charges of resisting police. (see May 10th 1981). (11, p. 87).
11.12.1981	Moscow refusenik Samuel Rombe is given a three year suspended sentence. (see July 16th, 1981), (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 87).
13.12.1981	From December 13th – 23rd, a delegation of Israeli public figures visits the Soviet Union at the invitation of the Soviet Peace Committee.  The five member delegation includes MK Rabbi Menachem Hacohen; former Mapam MK Chaike Grossman, Labor MK Ora Namir and David Chinin and Selim Jubran of the Israel Communist Party (Rakah).  The delegation visits Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev.  (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p.85).
14.12.1981	Fifty-two Congressmen send a letter to President Leonid Brezhnev protesting against the persecution of Hebrew teachers in the USSR. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982,  p. 87).
19.12.1981	Odessa refuseniks Yakov Mesh (see November 18th 1981) and Valery Pevzner, whose homes were recently searched by militia and books on Israel, Jewish culture and  history as well as Hebrew textbooks were confiscated, are repeatedly summoned to the local offices of the KGB, and told they will be put on trial. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 87).
19.12.1981	Brothers Goldstein, who tried to go to Moscow, are forcibly returned to Tbilisi.
21.12.1981	50 Moscow and 60 Odessa Jews organized a demonstration on the first day of Hanukkah, a sit-in near the Lenin Library in Moscow. (33, 01.01.82).
24.12.1981	50 Jewish activists hold a hunger strike to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the first Leningrad trial. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
25.12.1981	Professor Israel Singer, Executive Director of the World Jewish Congress arrives in Moscow for a five-day visit to the Soviet Union to clarify points raised in talks between the WJC President, Edgar Bronfman and the Soviet Ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Dobrynin in the last two years. (d.o.r.) (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p.88).
29.12.1981	A Committee to Safeguard Jewish Culture in the USSR is set up in Paris by the writers Raymond Aron, Simone de Beavoir, Samuel Beckett, Edmond Jacobs, Pierre Emmanuel, Michelle Leiris and Elie Wiesel, the philosopher Vladimir Jankelevitch, the jurists, Daniel Jacoby and Louis Pettiti, the journalist Jean Cathala and Professor Jean-Oierre Vernant. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
00-00-1982	Arrest of Boris Kanevsky (1944), an active member of the unofficial Jewish University in Moscow. He will be sentenced to one year in prison and two years of exile.
01-01-1982	9,447 Jews emigrated from the USSR in 1981 in contrast to 21,471 in 1980.434 Jews left the Soviet Union in December 1981. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
04-01-1982	Anatoly Shcharansky’s mother is allowed to have a two-hour meeting with her son in the Chistopol prison for the first time in 18 months. She finds him in a weak condition after six months of solitary confinement with the low food rations he received for allegedly breaking camp regulations. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
06-01-1982	The Kiev Appeal Court rejected Alexander Paritsky’s appeal and upholds his three year sentence in a general regime labor camp (see November 13, 1981). (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
06-01-1982	Alexander Lerner forced to cease contacts with foreigners under the pressure of the KGB. (29, p. 203-208).
08-01-1982	Demonstration of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry near the Soviet Mission to the UN in support of Anatoly Shcharansky and refusenik Hebrew teachers.
10-01-1982	Arrest of Simon Shnirman. He will be sentenced to 3 years in prison.
14-01-1982	The Leningrad synagogue is broken into. Silver ornaments and breastplates for Torah scrolls, a Kiddush cup and money from a collection box are stolen. A night watchman,  an old Jew is beaten up. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
15-01-1982	According to the newspaper “Pravda”, the campaign in support of counter-revolution in Poland shows that among the friends of Polish extremists are Zionists. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
17-01-1982	Leningrad refusenik Grigory Vasserman, a 32 year old radio engineer, was beaten by three men on the way home from a private Hebrew lesson.  (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
26-01-1982	U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig raises the issue of Soviet Jewish emigration in talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
26-01-1982	Presidium of the World (Brussels) Conference on Soviet Jewry meets in Washington. It decides to convene a third World Conference on October 26th-28th 1982. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
28-01-1982	Six leaders of major Jewish organizations attending the meeting of the Presidium of the World Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry meet U.S. Vice President Bush to seek assurances that the Reagan Administration will strengthen its efforts in negotiations with the Soviet Union concerning the emigration of Soviet Jews. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
29-01-1982	An appeal court upheld Samuel Rombe’s suspended sentence (see December 11, 1981). (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 88).
01-02-1982	290 Jews left the Soviet Union in January.
09-02-1982	Twenty eight veteran refuseniks send an open letter to participants of the Madrid Conference of the CSCE meeting listing Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 89).
09-02-1982	The CSCE meeting in Madrid resumed its work after the winter break. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 89).
11-02-1982	Several Moscow activists were summoned to the police or KGB and warned to stop lessons in Hebrew. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 89).
12-02-1982	Soviet militia men raid the home of Moscow refusenik Mikhail Nekrasov during a Hebrew lesson. They confiscate  Hebrew primers, dictionaries, and cassettes  and warn the students not to attend further lessons or seminars. Nekrasov is warned on February 15th that unless he stops giving Hebrew lessons he will be banned from Moscow. (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 89).
18-02-1982 23-02-1982	Refusenik Ida Nudel, currently in exile in Siberia, is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 by  three members of the Swedish Parliament. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 89).
23.02.1982	Tanya Gulyaeva-Gurevich, the daughter of Minsk refusenik, Lieutenant-Colonel Lev Ovsischer, who emigrated to Israel in 1979, is allowed by the Soviet authorities to pay a month’s visit to her sick mother in Minsk. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #2, 1982, p. 89).
00-03-1982	Prisoner of Zion Boris Chernobilsky was sent to serve his term in Magadan.
00-03-1982	Prisoner of Zion Aleksander Paritsky was sent to Ulan-Ude to serve his term.
01-03-1982	283 Jews left the Soviet Union in February.
02-03-1982	The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously adopts a resolution calling on the Soviet Union to end the persecution, arrests and trials of Jewish activists; to remove obstacles to emigration; and to respect the rights of its citizens to practice their religion.  (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
03-03-1982	The Old Jewish Cemetery in Vinnitsa, a relic of some 300 years of Jewish history in the Ukraine, is being demolished to be used as a construction site. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
03-03-1982	Leningrad refusenik Boris Friedman is warned by the KGB not to involve himself in Purim celebrations. He is subsequently placed under house arrest for several days. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
04-03-1982	U.S. Senate adopted the resolution calling for the Soviet Union to stop the persecution, arrests, and trials of Jewish activists; to remove obstacles to emigration; and to respect the religious rights of its citizens. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
06-03-1982	Prisoner of Zion Anatoly Shcharansky is placed on “strict regime” in the Chistopol prison for failing to fulfill his work quota. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
08-03-1982	Madrid meeting of the CSCE was adjourned until November 1982. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p.93).
12-03-1982	A delegation of the EEC Committee of the European branch of the World Jewish Congress raises the issue of Soviet Jewry at a meeting in Brussels with Leo Tindemans, President of the EEC Council of Ministers. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
15-03-1982	A group of Kiev refuseniks begin a hunger strike: each refusenik family takes a turn fasting for twenty-four hours and sends a letter to the authorities demanding the immediate cessation of harassment, a reconsideration of rejected emigration applications and the release of imprisoned Jewish activists. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
24-03-1982	Prisoner of Zion Ida Nudel is released after serving four years in exile for exhibiting a banner demanding an exit visa to Israel. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
25-03-1982	The Chistopol prison authorities withdraw Anatoly Shcharansky’s right to send a  monthly letter to his family as punishment for “bad behavior” (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
27-03-1982	Ida Nudel arrives in Moscow. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
27-03-1982	Kim Friedman released from a labor camp after having served one year’s imprisonment for “parasitism”. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
28-03-1982	Mikhail Tsyvin, a 19 year old former textile technology student from Leningrad, is arrested for protesting in Moscow’s Red Square for the right to immigrate to Israel. He is sentenced to ten days in police custody. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 95).
01-04-1982	289 Jews left the Soviet Union in March.
01.04.1982	Leningrad activist Boris Devyatov, closely connected with an unofficial Jewish theater  directed by Leonid Kelbert, is assaulted by a stranger in a public telephone booth. He is arrested, accused of “hooliganism” and given a 15 days’ sentence of administrative detention. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
01-04-1982	Efim Goldberg, of Riga, is warned to stop teaching Hebrew. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
02-04-1982	Ivan Kovalev, 28, one of the last active members of the Helsinki Group of dissidents monitoring Soviet abuses of  human rights, is sentenced by the Moscow City Court to five years in a labor camp followed by five years’ internal exile. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
06-04-1982	Katya Umanskaya of Moscow, is warned to stop her Jewish cultural activities. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
06-04-1982	Sverdlovsk refuseniks Lev Shefer and Vladimir Yelchin are sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda (see September 21st, 1981). (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
06-04-1982	Police search the home of Nehemiah Rozengauz, 37, a Tashkent computer scientist. All materials connected to Hebrew studies are confiscated. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
09-04-1982	Ida Nudel is summoned to the police station for interrogation. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
16-04-1982	Leningrad refusenik student Mikhail Tsyvin is again arrested after chaining himself to the railings outside St. Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square, demanding permission to emigrate to Israel. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
22-04-1982	Six refuseniks in Odessa join the hunger strike begun by Kiev refuseniks on March 15th. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
24-04-1982	A 5,000 word article in the newspaper Sovetskaya Moldaviya condemns the practice of sending parcels to Soviet Jews by people living in London, Copenhagen, Basel as part of the “Zionist conspiracy”. It attacks Kishinev refuseniks and activists by name. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
29-04-1982	12 Moscow refuseniks join the hunger strike initiated by refuseniks in Kiev on March 15th . (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
29-04-1982	Several religious Jews who have been hosting bible study groups in Moscow are warned by the authorities that religious gatherings in private homes are a breach of Soviet law. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
29-04-1982	Moisei Zats of Chernovtsy, who was sentenced on June 2nd, 1980 to three years imprisonment in a labor camp, is released on parole. (d.o.r.),  (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
30-04-1982	A European Union of Jewish Students seminar on the theme of oppressed Jewry is held in Vienna. The seminar is convened through May 3rd. Lectures are delivered on Jews in the USSR, Syria, and Ethiopia. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
01-05-1982	288 Jews left the USSR in April.  (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
02-05-1982	A group of refuseniks gather at Rumbuli, near Riga on Holocaust remembrance day. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 96).
03-05-1982	The preparatory Committee for the Third Brussels Conference on Soviet Jewry , to be held in Paris on October 24th – 26th,  meets in Paris.   (see January 26th-28th 1982).  (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p.97).
13-05-1982	Ida Nudel’s  application for residing in Moscow is rejected by the Volgogradsky District of Moscow. (see April 9th 1982), (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p.97).
13-05-1982	A petition in support of the rights of Soviet Jews, signed by more than one million West Europeans, is presented to Peter Dankert, President of the European Parliament in Strasbourg by chairmen of the Soviet Jewry movements in England, France and the Holland. The European Parliament adopts a resolution calling on the Ten EEC Foreign Ministers to express their concern to the Soviet government about the persecution of Soviet Jews and the sharp reduction in the number of exit permits granted to them. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 97).
16-05-1982	A former KGB chief Yuri Andropov was appointed Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 97).
00-06-1982	Establishment of an informal theater in Leningrad by refusenik Leonid Kelbert.
01-06-1982	205 Jews left the Soviet Union in May. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 97).
01.06.1982	A festival of friendship and solidarity with the Palestinian Arab people was held in Moscow and Minsk. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 94).
03-06-1982	Rabbi Yaakov Fishman orders the Gemarah study circle, which has met for several years in the Moscow synagogue, to disband. This follows a recent development when five young men joined the circle. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 97).
05-06-1982	York University in Toronto, Canada, awards an honorary degree to Anatoly Shcharansky in absentia. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 97).
06-06-1982	Leningrad refusenik mathematician Evgeny Lein, 42, was released from his imprisonment at the end of the term. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 97).
11-06-1982	The Second European Conference of Parliamentarians (from 13 countries) on the Situation of Soviet Jewry is held in House of Parliament in the Hague. It appeals to the Soviet government to allow increased immigration. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982,  p. 97).
11-06-1982	Moscow veteran refusenik and Hebrew teacher Pavel Abramovich is summoned by the KGB for the fourth time in a month ( May 14th and 21st, and June 3rd) despite the fact that he stopped teaching as of May 21st. He is presented with a formal list of offences (publishing samizdat; passing on information abroad, meetings with undesirable foreigners; teaching Hebrew) on June 3rd and warned on June 11th that his Hebrew classes are considered as  spreading “bourgeois nationalist propaganda”. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 97).
22-06-1982	Anatoly Shcharansky is awarded the third annual award of the British All-Party Parliamentary Committee for Soviet Jewry. The award, a lithograph by Henry Moore, with the artist’s inscription “For courage in defense of freedom”, is received by his wife Avital Shcharansky. (11, vol. 12, #3, 1982, p. 97).
01-07-1982	182 Jews had left the USSR in June 1982. 1,537 Jews had left during the first six months of the year. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 99).
03-07-1982	Due to a sharp decrease of emigration a hostel that served as temporary shelter for immigrants en route  to Israel is closed in Vienna. Arrangements are made for the transfer of immigrants to Israel within a day or two of their arrival in Vienna. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983,  p. 99).
06-07-1982	Mother and brother of Anatoly Shcharansky were denied permission to visit Anatoly in the Chistopol prison. They were informed that the prison authorities deprived Shcharansky of the right to receive visits from relatives as of January 1982. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 99).
08-07-1982	Following an unsuccessful appeal to Moscow City Council  against the Volgogradsky District Council’s refusal to grant her a residence permit after her return from exile in Siberia refusenik Ida Nudel is told by KGB to leave Moscow immediately. (see May 13th 1982) She is banned from returning to Moscow until July 1983. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 99).
14-07-1982	Prisoner of  Zion Grigory Geishis is released after serving two years in a labor camp for draft evasion. (see August 8th 1980), (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 99).
17-07-1982	Dissidents Valery Senderov, 37, Boris Kanevsky, 37, Vladimir Gershuni, 52, and Ilya Geltzer, 17, were arrested for collecting data on discrimination against Jews for admission to Moscow University. All are held in the Butyrski prison. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 99).
22-07-1982	Avraham Miller, whose Moscow Talmud study group at the Moscow synagogue was joined by several young people, has been replaced by Israel Shvartsblat who was a member of the permanent staff of the synagogue. The lessons are now again conducted in Yiddish, and young people in the group are now excluded from the circle. (d.o.r.),  (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 99).
01-08-1982	186 Jews left the USSR in July. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 99).
12-08-1982	A series of lectures on Jewish ethnography was stopped by the KGB without warning, although it was sponsored by the Yiddish newspaper “Sovietishe Heymland” and was chaired by editor Aron Vergelis. Over 100 people joined to the fourth lecture of the series, many of whom were refuseniks. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 100).
12-08-1982	A calendar of Jewish religious holidays is issued by Moscow’s Choral Synagogue for 1982-1983  (5743  on the Jewish calendar).
31-08-1982	A Soviet documentary film “Zionism Before the Tribunal of History” premieres in a Moscow movie theatre. Among the themes of the film are the Jewish lobby in the U.S. and the war in Lebanon, etc. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.100).
00-09-1982	Alexander Paritsky suffers a heart attack while held in custody.
01-09-1982	238 Jews left the Soviet Union in August (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.100).
04-09-1982	Radio Moscow in Arabic begins a series of broadcasts on the subject “Zionism is Today’s Fascism.” (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.100).
08-09-1982	At a news conference in Moscow Elena Bonner, wife of Dr. Andrei Sakharov, announces the dissolution of the Moscow Group for Furthering the Implementation of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR. The group was established in May 1976 to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki accords. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.100).
08-09-1982	A delegation of the Canadian Parliamentary Group on Soviet Jewry, including two representatives of the Canadian Soviet Jewry Committee, visits the USSR from September 8th -15th.  The delegation has talks with representatives of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the Institute of the USA and Canadian Studies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  It meets many refuseniks in Moscow and Leningrad.  On the 12th of September two Soviet Jewry Committee members are assaulted in Leningrad by young thugs while trying to visit refusenik Aba Taratuta. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.100).
10-09-1982	Refusenik Felix Kochubievsky, 52 year old electronics engineer, PhD in automatics, is arrested in Novosibirsk on charges of “anti-Soviet propaganda” for being involved in efforts to establish a USSR-Israel Friendship Society. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.100).
15-09-1982	The Third World (Brussels) Conference on Soviet Jewry, scheduled to take place on October 24th-26th, 1982 in Versailles, is postponed (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 100).
.27-09-1982	Anatoly Shcharansky begins a hunger strike in protest against repeated confiscation of his mail by Chistopol prison authorities. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.100).
30-09-1982	Professor Alexander Lerner and other Moscow refuseniks are warned by the KGB not to meet visitors from the West. (d.o.r.),  (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 101).
01-10-1982	Kharkov refusenik Yuri Tarnopolsky, a 47 year old chemist, begins a hunger strike to protest against the authorities’ refusal to grant him and his family permission to emigrate. He intends to continue his hunger strike until November 9th when the Madrid CSCE review meeting reconvenes. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.101).
01-10-1982	246 Jews left the Soviet Union in September (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.101).
14-10-1982	Prisoner of Zion Alexander Paritsky, now serving three-years in a labor camp, is placed in solitary confinement for the third time in the eight weeks for failing to fulfill his work norm. (see November 13th 1981) , (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.101).
15-10-1982	President Reagan authorizes an increase from 15 to 23 million tons the amount of grain that  the Soviet Union can buy from American farmers in the current financial year. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p.98).
18-10-1982	Former Prisoner of Zion Amner Zavurov from Dushanbe who was released from labor camp in April 1980, receives an exit permit to Israel. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 101).
20-10-1982	Refusenik Boris Gulko, a Soviet chess grandmaster, begins a hunger strike in protest against the authorities’ refusal to allow him to immigrate to Israel. His wife joins the hunger strike on November 1st. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 101).
25-10-1982	On October 25th and 26th the Presidium of the World (Brussels) Conference on Soviet Jewry, meeting in Jerusalem, decides to convene a third conference in March 1983 in Israel. (11, vol. 13, #1, 1983, p. 101).
01-11-1982	172 Jews left the Soviet Union in November.
05-11-1982	Edgar Bronfman, President of the World Jewish Congress, receives an invitation from the CPSU Central Committee to visit the Soviet Union. (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 100).
06-11-1982	Iosif Begun is arrested in Leningrad. Iosif Begun has already served two terms of exile: two years for “parasitism”, and three years for “violation of residence  regulations”. (see June 1st 1977 and June 28th 1977), (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 100).
08-11-1982	A meeting on Security and Cooperation in Europe is convened in Madrid. (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 99).
10-11-1982	The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies.
11-11-1982	Moscow refusenik Benjamin Ganelin, a geologist, is arrested on charges of bribery. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 100).
12-11-1982	Yuri Andropov is elected as General Secretary of the CPSU.
17-11-1982	The new anti-American documentary movie “When the Mist of Lies Clears” premieres in Moscow. The movie deals, among other things, with the events in Lebanon. (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 100).
28-11-1982	Moscow refuseniks Boris Gulko and his wife end their hunger strike.  (see October 20th 1982), ( 11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 100).
28-11-1982	About 150 Riga Jews commemorate the 41st anniversary of the massacre of the Jews from the Riga ghetto at the massacre site in Rumbuli outside Riga. (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 100).
00-12-1982	Ida Nudel was not allowed to return to Moscow. She is forced to go to Bendery.
01-12-1982	137 Jews left the USSR in November.
01-12-1982	In reply to an enquiry by 44 Moscow Refuseniks, their representatives Boris Klotz and Anatoly Vasilevsky are informed by the Supreme Soviet that regarding all matters of emigration the highest authority is the Ministry of Interior, and it is not accountable to anyone. Emigration is directed and monitored by the Ministry of Interior whose instructions are classified and unpublished. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 100).
01-12-1982	137 Jews left the USSR in November, the lowest monthly figure in 11 years.
04-12-1982	Vladimir and Maria Slepak return to Moscow from four years of exile in Siberia. (see June 21st 1978) (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 100).
09-12-1982	Ida Nudel is allowed to register in Bendery, in the Moldavian Republic. (see November 2nd 1982), (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 101).
09-12-1982	An exhibition devoted to the 1970 Leningrad trial has opened in Israel, drawing attention to Yuri Fedorov and Alexei Murzhenko, two non-Jews who are serving sentences of fifteen and fourteen years respectively. (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 101).
10-12-1982	Felix Kochubievsky, 52, Novosibirsk, is sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment in a labor camp under Article 190.1, defaming the Soviet State. (22, Felix Kochubievsky).
16-12-1982	Refusenik Boris Chernobilsky, who was released in November from a labor camp upon completion of a one year sentence, is given a residence permit in Moscow. (see May 10th and December 9th 1981), (d.o.r.), (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 101).
16-12-1982	Refusenik Alexander Magidovich returns to Tula upon completion of his two and a half year sentence of imprisonment on charges of defaming the Soviet State. (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 101).
17-12-1982	The head of the KGB, Vitaly Fedorchuk is appointed Minister of Internal Affairs. Victor Chebrikov is appointed head of the KGB. (11, vol. 13, #2, 1983, p. 101).
22-12-1982	Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry held a demonstration in support of Anatoly Shcharansky in front of Aeroflot’s office in New York. The demonstration was attended by about 400 people.