Tatiana Yankelevich is an independent researcher affiliated with the Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She was born in Russia, and received
her education in Moscow, and graduated from Moscow University in 1975 with MA in
Russian Literature.
Ms. Yankelevich immigrated to the US in 1977 as a result of direct pressure by the KGB on
her stepfather Andrei Sakharov and on her immediate family, in an effort to stop their
human rights work.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Ms. Yankelevich campaigned extensively on behalf of Andrei
Sakharov, and for his causes in the US and Europe.
From 1993 to 2004, she was assistant director of the Andrei Sakharov Archives at
Brandeis University. Later she was Director of Sakharov Program on Human Rights at the
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, now the home of the
Andrei Sakharov Archive.