Georgi Vins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georgi Vins

Soviet dissident

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1928

Place of Birth: Blagoveshchensk

Date of Death: 11-Jan-1998

Profession: pastor

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Georgi Petrovich Vins (Russian: ??????? ???????? ????; August 4, 1928 Blagoveshchensk, Russian SFSR – January 11, 1998 Elkhart, Indiana) was a Russian Baptist pastor persecuted by the Soviet authorities for his involvement in a network of independent Baptist churches.
Following an agreement between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S.
President Jimmy Carter, Vins and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union in 1979 with a group of other dissidents (Alexander Ginzburg, Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits and Valentin Moroz) in exchange for two convicted spies, Rudolf Chernyaev and Valdik Enger.