Marina Voikhanskaya

Marina Voikhanskaya () (born Marina Izraïlevna Fridlender on 11 November 1934) is a Soviet-British psychiatrist. She opposed patients being committed to Soviet psychiatric hospitals for their beliefs, rather than for mental health reasons. 
She migrated to the UK in 1975. She campaigned against the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes and for the release of her son Misha from the Soviet Union. She lives in Cambridge, UK.
Early life and education.
Marina Voikhanskaya studied medicine at the First Pavlov State Medical University in Leningrad and obtained her M.D. degree in 1960. Between 1962 and 1975, she worked in Leningrad’s Psychiatric Hospitals n. 2 (1962-1967) and n. 3 (1967-1975). She later exposed how in these hospitals there were overcrowded wards, underpaid doctors, bad food and poor hygienic conditions.
In the late 1970s, after her emigration to the UK, Voikhanskaya worked as a junior doctor at Fulbourn Hospital in Cambridge and West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St. Edmunds.
Environmental activism and charity work.
Marina Voikhanskaya’s use of the bicycle as a means of transportation has received media attention. She has gone for many journeys and cycle challenges for the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) in 2006. She did the same till 2010.
In 2016, her 650 km ride from England to Ménerbes was helped for the benefit of the hospital of in Provence.