Lev Tanengolts
Lev Isaevich Tanengolts is a Russian programmer, dissident, and author. He lived in Moscow and was known as a distributor of samizdat literature and a member of the editorial circle of the Chronicle of Current Events. He is married to Cerina Lvovna Tanengolts, who was also part of the same dissident circle.
Early life and career
Specific information about Tanengolts's early life and programming career remains limited in publicly available sources. He worked professionally as a programmer in the Soviet Union.Dissident activities
Tanengolts was actively involved in the Soviet dissident and human rights movement from the 1970s through the 1980s. He was engaged as a distributor of samizdat, clandestine literature banned by the Soviet authorities, and was a member of the editorial circle of the influential underground publication Chronicle of Current Events.He participated in the Solzhenitsyn Aid Fund, an organization supporting political prisoners, initially from 1974 into the 1980s.
The KGB reportedly showed interest in Tanengolts due to his telling of "bad" or politically sensitive jokes.