 Delaunay started to write poetry at the age of 13.His poetry was distributed by samizdat and some of it was published abroad.Vadim Delaunay


On January 22, 1967, Delaunay took part in a demonstration on Pushkin Square protesting the arrest Yuri Galanskov and others (leading to the Trial of the Four) as well as articles 70 and 190 of the Soviet Penal Code—"Anti-Soviet agitation" and "Libel against the Soviet Government".