Andrey Nikolaevich Derevyankin is a politician, Soviet dissident, and former political prisoner. Derevyankin participated in the anti-Soviet dissident movement. He was expelled from Saratov Law Academy for the activities to create an anti-Soviet group of students. According to the criminal case, he admitted the anti-Soviet talks, writing and putting up in Saratov and Tula leaflets calling to engage in an illegal organization "Justice", "showing how to make conspiracy, outlining the need to establish connections with foreigners for the carriage of anti-Soviet literature at the USSR , "suggested the use of experience of the Polish "Solidarity ".