Soviets Move Dissident Out of Labor Camp

Prominent dissident Anatoly Koryagin has been transferred from a labor camp to a prison in his home city of Kharkov, physicist Andrei D. Sakharov said Saturday. In the past, such moves have preceded release of other prisoners.

Koryagin, 48, was sentenced in 1981 to a 12-year term in labor camp and internal exile for disclosing abuse of psychiatry to repress dissent in the Soviet Union. He was convicted of anti-Soviet agitation.

Dissident sources in Moscow said that his wife, Galina, has been told that Koryagin will be released if they both emigrate to the West. She was asked in Kharkov to fill out emigration papers for her entire family, including her husband, the sources said.

Sakharov Urged Release

Western governments have been pressing for his release, and Sakharov, who spent seven years of exile in the closed city of Gorky for airing his differences with the Soviet regime, also called specifically for Koryagin’s freedom.

Another well-known prisoner, Sergei Khodorovich, also is going to be released soon on condition that he and his family leave the Soviet Union, Soviet sources have told Western correspondents.

Khodorovich, 45, is a computer programmer who managed a fund to aid jailed dissidents set up by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He was sent to prison on charges of anti-Soviet slander and was not scheduled to be released until 1989.