Yuri Orlov

Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, born 13 August 1924 in Moscow) is a nuclear physicist and human rights activist, a former Soviet dissident, a founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Soviet Amnesty International group, and currently Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union.