Yelena Bonner, Soviet-Russian activist (died 2011)

Yelena Bonner

Human rights activist in the Soviet Union (1923–2011)

Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist, activist and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.