in March 1974, and deported from the Soviet Union in 1979. Kryuchkov continued to preach and lead the Council until his death. He also wrote for the journal Herald of Truth. Kryuchkov was hunted by the police and the KGB until 1990, with wanted posters displayed in public places. Although he saw little of his wife and family, who were subject to constant surveillance, he and his wife had nine children together. After 19 years in hiding, he reappeared in public at the Council's annual congress at Rostov-on-Don in July 1989, in the wake of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms. After speaking, he quickly made his escape before the waiting KGB could arrest him. His wife died before him in 2007. He died in Tula on 15 July 2007. References Obituary, The Independent, 5 September 2007 Obituary, The Guardian, 3 October 2007 1926 births 2007 deaths People from Volgograd Russian Baptist ministers 20th-century Baptist ministers Soviet military personnel of World War II