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Alexander Bolonkin

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Alexander Alexandrovich Bolonkin (Russian: Александр Александрович Болонкин; 14 March 1933 – 25 December 2020) was a Russian-American scientist and academic who worked in the Soviet aviation, space and rocket industries and lectured in Moscow universities, before being arrested in 1972 by the KGB as a dissident. He served terms of imprisonment and exile for 15 years until 1987, when he emigrated to the US as a political refugee.