Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories; noted for his depiction of social outcasts
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an industrial city in the European part of Russia; birthplace of Maksim Gorky
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While in Moscow, he was the official spokesman on Andrei Sakharov during the scientist's exile in Gorki.
He had condemned the Soviet decision to send troops into Afghanistan in 1979 and that criticism was one reason he was forced to live in internal exile in the closed city of Gorki for several years.