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Vazif Meylanov (15 May 1940 – 11 January 2015) was a social science philosopher, mathematician, “private politician”, writer, Soviet dissident and political prisoner (1980–1989). He became renowned for his critical works on theory of socialism as well as for singular endurance and uncompromising attitude towards authorities during his prison terms. After imprisonment and exile Vazif Meylanov dealt with the problem of personal freedom, examined social and political environment, dispelled stereotypes about Russian democracy and analyzed political consciousness of Russian society. Besides, he was an opponent of nationalism and Islamism, while he proposed that the idea of rule of human rights should be a basis for human relationships and strong state machine should enforce rights. Early days Vazif Meylanov was born in Makhachkala on May 15, 1940. He is an ethnic Lezgin. Until 1954 he studied at the school №1 in Makhachkala. Since 1954 he studied at the school № 2 in the town Chardzhou (Turkmenistan) and graduated from that school in 1957. From 1957 till 1958 he lived in Pyatigorsk and prepared to enter Moscow State University. From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University. Vazif Meylanov served as a private soldier in the Soviet Army from 1961 to 1964. From 1964 to 1969 he studied at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University and attended seminars of Anatoli Vitushkin. From 1969 to 1972 Meylanov studied at that Faculty as a post-graduate student, then from 1972 to 1978 he taught advanced mathematics at Dagestan Polytechnic Institute. In 1972 Vazif Meylanov wrote the novel “To flash as a tigress”. Vazif Meylanov is the author of two works on the mathematical theory of real-variable function: “Sequences of closed sets of bounded variation converging in the deviation metric” (1974) and “Two close sets of bounded variation”. The works were published in the “Mathematical Notes” journal and translated into English, the second work was also published in the US. Start of social and political activity In 1977 Vazif Meylanov wrote and published in his own name philosophical and political work “Notes on the margins of Soviet newspapers", which was devoted to criticism of the communism theory. According to this work, Vazif Meylanov regards structures of freedom of speech and press and the abolition of Articles 70 and 190-1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR as the only way to save society. In 1978 Vazif Meylanov was not re-elected by the Academic Council of the Institute as a teacher for a new five-year term because of "being in opposition to the staff and damaging the communist education of youth". From 1978 to 1980 Vazif Meylanov worked as a concrete worker of the 5th rank in the mobile mechanized column №10 and the special mobile mechanized column №18. On January 25, 1980, on the next day after the article devoted to the exile of Sakharov in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, was published in the “Izvestia” newspaper, Vazif Meylanov was arrested for walking into the Lenin square in Makhachkala with a banner on which was written the following: "I protest against the persecution of Sakharov. Ideas should fight against ideas, but not the police. Population needs people like Sakharov, as it is they who exercise the true informal control over the actions of the state. All troubles of this country are caused by the lack of freedom of speech. Fight for freedom of speech of ideological opponents of communism – it will be your fight for freedom of speech! " Extract from the BBC broadcast on January 28, 1980 (shown as amended): "Moscow dissidents report that in Makhachkala, Dagestan, a man who tried to protest publicly against the exile of Academician Andrei Sakharov was arrested. On Friday, January 25 Vazif Meylanov went out to the street and held a banner with words of protest in front of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union). Meylanov was immediately arrested and taken to an undisclosed location. His apartment is reported to have been ransacked. A 39 years- old Meylanov graduated from Moscow State University and taught mathematics at the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute until 1978”. On December 2, 1980 Vazif Meylanov was found guilty by the Supreme Court of DASSR in 3 cases of accumulation: 1. Writing and distributing his work "Notes on the margins of Soviet newspapers"; 2. Going to the square with a banner; 3. The distribution of the Bunin’s "Cursed Days" book, the Khodasevich "Necropolis" book and the Panin’s "Life of Sologdin" book. and was sentenced to 7 years in a strict-security camp and two years of exile. In the remand prison Vazif Meylanov wrote "Notes on the transcript of court sessions", which presents a documentary evidence of "public meeting with non-Communist political figure." Imprisonment and exile Vazif Meylanov was sent to the correctional labor colony № 35, also known as Perm-35, located in the western taiga zone of the Ural Mountains. This colony (389/35) was established for dangerous special criminals in 1972. In the early 1980s 270 political prisoners served time in the colony for dissidence, including Vazif Meylanov, Anatoly Sharansky, Vladimir Poresh, Anatoly Marchenko, Vladimir Bukovsky, Joseph Begun, Sergei Grigoryants, Gleb Yakunin, Yuriy Orlov, Sergei Kovalev, Valery Senderov and many others. Vazif Meylanov arrived in the colony on March 26, 1981. There he refused to participate in a correctional forced labor, writing a statement to Major Osin, Chief of the colony, on August 28, 1981: "I refuse to work in the colony in protest against forced labor in prison camp, which contradicts the status of political prisoners. I claim the following changes to the Internal Rules of correctional labor colony and to the correctional labor code (for political prisoners): 1. To establish the principle of voluntary participation in the labor force. 2. To put an end to deductions from wages of political prisoners for maintenance of the prison administration and guard. Commentary. The percentage of deductions should be the same as at liberty. If society is afraid of me, then ... let them pay for their fears! That’s the way the world wags - for your fears you have to pay yourself. Transmit this information to the workers and the peasants. 3. To put an end to the shameful practice of hunger tortures in punitive confinement. Commentary. Nutritional standards in punitive confinement should be the same as that in the colony (2A)." - 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vazif Meylanov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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