Yuri Gastev

Yuri Gastev (22 March 1928, in Moscow – 12 October 1993, in Boston) was a Soviet mathematician and cybernetician who became an active dissident, finally emigrating to the USA.

Yuri was the son of Aleksei Gastev, the revolutionary poet who later became an advocate of scientific management.

Aleksei was arrested in 1938 as part of the Great Purge and murdered the following year.

Yuri left school at 15 and started attending Moscow University.

Gastev died of cancer in New England Deaconess Hospital on 12 October 1993.