In 1977 Vazif Meylanov wrote and published in his own name philosophical and political work “Notes on the margins of Soviet newspapers", which was devoted to criticism of the communism theory.
In it, Meylanov argued for freedom of speech and press and the abolition of the Articles 70 (Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda) and 190-1 (defamation of the Soviet system) of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR.

In 1978 Vazif Meylanov was not re-elected by the Academic Council of the Institute as a teacher for a new five-year term because of "being in opposition to the staff and damaging the communist education of youth".

From 1978 to 1980 Vazif Meylanov worked as a concrete worker of the 5th rank in the mobile mechanized column No.10 and the special mobile mechanized column No.18.

On January 25, 1980, on the next day after the article devoted to the exile of Sakharov in the city of Gorky was published in the Izvestia newspaper, Meylanov was arrested for walking into the Lenin square in Makhachkala with a banner on which was written the following: "I protest against the persecution of Sakharov.
Ideas should fight against ideas, but not the police.
Population needs people like Sakharov, as it is they who exercise the true informal control over the actions of the state.
All troubles of this country are caused by the lack of freedom of speech.
Fight for freedom of speech of ideological opponents of communism – it will be your fight for freedom of speech! "

On Friday, January 25 Vazif Meylanov went out to the street and held a banner with words of protest in front of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union).
Meylanov was immediately arrested and taken to an undisclosed location.
His apartment is reported to have been ransacked.

A 39 years- old Meylanov graduated from Moscow State University and taught mathematics at the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute until 1978”.

On December 2, 1980  Vazif Meylanov was found guilty by the Supreme Court of the Dagestan ASSR on three charges:
Writing and distributing his work "Notes on the margins of Soviet newspapers";
Going to the square with a banner;
The distribution of the books Cursed Days by Ivan Bunin, Necropolis by Vladislav Khodasevich and Life of Sologdin by Dimitri Panin
Не was sentenced to 7 years in a strict regime labor camp and two years of exile.

In the remand prison, Meylanov wrote "Notes on the transcript of court sessions".
In 1977 Vazif Meylanov wrote and published in his own name philosophical and political work “Notes on the margins of Soviet newspapers", which was devoted to criticism of the communism theory. In it, Meylanov argued for freedom of speech and press and the abolition of the Articles 70 (Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda) and 190-1 (defamation of the Soviet system) of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR.
In 1978 Vazif Meylanov was not re-elected by the Academic Council of the Institute as a teacher for a new five-year term because of "being in opposition to the staff and damaging the communist education of youth".
From 1978 to 1980 Vazif Meylanov worked as a concrete worker of the 5th rank in the mobile mechanized column No.10 and the special mobile mechanized column No.18.
On January 25, 1980, on the next day after the article devoted to the exile of Sakharov in the city of Gorky was published in the Izvestia newspaper, Meylanov was arrested for walking into the Lenin square in Makhachkala with a banner on which was written the following: "I protest against the persecution of Sakharov. Ideas should fight against ideas, but not the police. Population needs people like Sakharov, as it is they who exercise the true informal control over the actions of the state. All troubles of this country are caused by the lack of freedom of speech. Fight for freedom of speech of ideological opponents of communism – it will be your fight for freedom of speech! "
On Friday, January 25 Vazif Meylanov went out to the street and held a banner with words of protest in front of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union). Meylanov was immediately arrested and taken to an undisclosed location. His apartment is reported to have been ransacked.
A 39 years- old Meylanov graduated from Moscow State University and taught mathematics at the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute until 1978”.
On December 2, 1980  Vazif Meylanov was found guilty by the Supreme Court of the Dagestan ASSR on three charges:
Writing and distributing his work "Notes on the margins of Soviet newspapers";
Going to the square with a banner;
The distribution of the books Cursed Days by Ivan Bunin, Necropolis by Vladislav Khodasevich and Life of Sologdin by Dimitri Panin
Не was sentenced to 7 years in a strict regime labor camp and two years of exile.
In the remand prison, Meylanov wrote "Notes on the transcript of court sessions".
Vazif Meylanov