About Olga Lipovskaya
Lived 1954 – 2021 (aged 67). Olga Lipovskaya was a Russian journalist, politician, women's rights activist and translator.
Olga Gennadyevna Lipovskaya (; 09.02.1954 – 24.08.2021) was a Russian journalist and feminist. Working in Leningrad during the glasnost period from 1989 to 1991 Lipovskaya edited Women's Reading (Женское чтение, Zhenskoe Chtenie), a samizdat journal of about 30 copies per issue that she produced at home and circulated for other women to reproduce and pass along.
Lipovskaya acted as chairperson of the Saint Petersburg Centre for Gender Issues since 1992. She worked as a journalist and interpreter. From 1988 to 1991 she was a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Saint Petersburg branch of the Democratic Union.
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Who was Olga Lipovskaya?
Russian poet and feminist (1954-2021)
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Olga Lipovskaya was born on 9 February 1954 in Kirov Oblast.
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Olga Lipovskaya died on 24 August 2021 in Saint Petersburg.
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Olga Lipovskaya was a journalist, politician, women's rights activist and translator.
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Olga Lipovskaya was Russian.
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