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He tends to run
This man was born in 1936 in the city of Ordzhonikidze. He spent his childhood in Semipalatinsk, where he learned to swim; 10-year-old crossed the Irtysh River. I tried without documents to get a cabin boy to the Baltic Fleet. He served in the Army chemical battalion instructor.
He studied social psychology at the Pedagogical Institute, graduated from the navigational school, graduated from the Leningrad Meteorological Institute, "oceanography". After that, he worked at the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, was a deep-sea diving instructor at the Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok. He studied yoga for samizdat publications. He tried to get permission to go on business trips abroad, but his stubbornly refused, for various reasons, including, in view of the fact that he had relatives abroad (his sister married her husband for the Indians and went with her husband at first to India and then to Canada).
With an irresistible desire to explore the depths of the sea all over the world, but without such a possibility because of the categorical refusal of the authorities and the status assigned to it - "travel abroad" Stanislav KURILOV planned to escape from the USSR. This idea matured in him for a long time, and found a way out spontaneously when he saw an advertisement for a cruise tour on the ship "Soviet Union", en route from Vladivostok to the equator and back again without calling at ports in December 1974.
Calculating on the map the best route, the night 13 December 1974 jumped from the stern of the vessel into the water. With flippers, mask and snorkel, without food, drink, and sleep, for more than two days he sailed to the island of Siargao (Philippines) about 100 km. Such endurance promoted, with the words of Kurilova, his perennial yoga. After an investigation by the Philippine authorities and in detention was deported to Canada, received Canadian citizenship.
About escape told the radio station "Voice of America". In the USSR KURILOV he was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for treason.
He studied social psychology at the Pedagogical Institute, graduated from the navigational school, graduated from the Leningrad Meteorological Institute, "oceanography". After that, he worked at the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, was a deep-sea diving instructor at the Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok. He studied yoga for samizdat publications. He tried to get permission to go on business trips abroad, but his stubbornly refused, for various reasons, including, in view of the fact that he had relatives abroad (his sister married her husband for the Indians and went with her husband at first to India and then to Canada).
With an irresistible desire to explore the depths of the sea all over the world, but without such a possibility because of the categorical refusal of the authorities and the status assigned to it - "travel abroad" Stanislav KURILOV planned to escape from the USSR. This idea matured in him for a long time, and found a way out spontaneously when he saw an advertisement for a cruise tour on the ship "Soviet Union", en route from Vladivostok to the equator and back again without calling at ports in December 1974.
Calculating on the map the best route, the night 13 December 1974 jumped from the stern of the vessel into the water. With flippers, mask and snorkel, without food, drink, and sleep, for more than two days he sailed to the island of Siargao (Philippines) about 100 km. Such endurance promoted, with the words of Kurilova, his perennial yoga. After an investigation by the Philippine authorities and in detention was deported to Canada, received Canadian citizenship.
About escape told the radio station "Voice of America". In the USSR KURILOV he was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for treason.
