At the age of 78 years, a Russian journalist and writer Vitaly Shetalinsky. This was reported in the human rights organization "Memorial", with which Shetalinsky cooperated for about 30 years. The organization was reminded that during the perestroika, during the perestroika, Shentalinsky was engaged in the search and publication of the works of repressed authors as the head of the Commission on the Creative Heritage of Repressed Writers, which he himself collected. "His services to Russian culture can not be overemphasized ... His books translated into many languages ??

will continue his work - reminding of crimes against culture, about lost writers, returning lost," the message says.. It was Shetalinsky who first opened the literary archives of the KGB and introduced Soviet citizens to get acquainted with the dossier on the life and work of such writers and poets as Babel, Bulgakov, Gorky, Mandelstam, Berdyaev, Platonov, Tsvetaeva, Sholokhov, Akhmatova and Pasternak. In the "Memorial" expressed condolences in connection with the death of the Shetalinsky.