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Yuri Orlov, Bold Champion of Soviet Dissidents, Dies at 96 Yuri Orlov, Bold Champion of Soviet Dissidents, Dies at 96 Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov was born on Aug. 13, 1924, in a village near Moscow to Fyodor Pavlovich Orlov, a truck driver who became an aviation engineer, and Klavdiya Petrovna Lebedeva. His father died when Yuri was 9. He served in …