Locksmith, a member of the underground Christian organization "Path", in 1963 was sentenced to 5 years in camps for anti-Soviet agitation. In 1969, was arrested again, served his sentence in the Tashkent mental prison. One of the organizers of the mass escape of prisoners. Thanks to the international campaign for the release of Baranov, was exiled to London in 1986. Was held in a psychiatric clinic for socially dangerous behavior.