Frida Vigdorova

Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (16 March 1915, Orsha – 7 August 1965) was a Soviet journalist, novelist and writer.

Vigdorova graduated from Moscow Pedagogic Institute.

She was the author of a number of books on issues in education, including Diary of a Russian Schoolteacher (1954).

[2] In 1964, Vigdorova took notes during the trial of poet Joseph Brodsky, convicted for "social parasitism".

[3] Compiled without censorship, Frida Vigdorova's account circulated in samizdat and made its way to the West.