Year of birth: 1898
Place of birth: the town of Berdichev
Address: Moscow, Serafimovicha Str., 2, ap. 145
Place of work: Institute of Physics of the AN USSR [Academy of Sciences],
Senior Researcher
Nationality: a Jew
Citizenship: USSR
Convicted by: Special Board of the MGB (OSO)
Date: May 29, 1948
Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 19–58–1a (treason of the Motherland),
16. 58–10 pt. I [anti-Soviet propaganda], 58–11 [membership in an anti-Soviet organization]
Term: 20 years of imprisonment
Date of the arrival in Vladimir Prison: June 26, 1948
On July 3, 1954 [the prisoner] was transferred to Inner [Lubyanka] Prison of the KGB under the USSR SM [Council of Ministers] in Moscow7
Note: socially dangerous as a/S [anti-Soviet element; the same as on the card of his wife, Lidiya Shatunovskaya, see the previous Document No. 6]
DOCUMENT 8
[On the top, to the right] (scientific worker)
Last Name: Levina
Name: Revekka [Rebekka]
Patronymic Name: Saulovna
Year of birth: 1899
Place of birth: the village of Zhagorie [Zagorie] of the Lithuanian SSR
Address: Moscow, Bol’shaya Kaluzhskaya Str., 13, ap. 6
Place of work: Institute of the Economy of the AN USSR [Academy of Sciences], Senior Researcher
Nationality: a Jewess
Citizenship: USSR
Convicted by: Special Board of the MGB (OSO)
Date: May 29, 1948
Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 58–10 pt. II (anti-Soviet propaganda), 58–11 [membership in an anti-Soviet organization]
Term: 10 years of imprisonment
Date of the arrival in Vladimir Prison: June 28, 1948
On June 29, 1953 [the prisoner] was transferred to Butyrka Prison of the MVD USSR in Moscow
DOCUMENT 9
[On the top] American spy 1. Last Name: Goldstein
2. Name: Isaak
3. Patronymic Name: Iosifovich
4. Year of birth: 1892
5. Place of birth: Zamoscie, Poland
6. Address: Moscow, ul. Ogareva, 3, ap. 16
7. Profession (speciality): economist
8. Place of work, position: USSR Academy of Sciences, researcher
9. Party membership: none
10. Nationality: a Jew
11. Citizenship: USSR
12. Date of the arrest: December 19, 1947
13. Type of crime: espionage
14. Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 58–1a, 58–10 p. I
15. Place of the fulfillment of the card (mention the prison, KPZ [police station], camp, colony): Prison No. 2, [the city of] Vlad[imir]
June 20, 1950
Person who filled out the card: Soldatov
Organ (in charge of the arrest): Department for the Especially Important Cases of the MGB of the USSR
No. of the Case: 174
[Nos. of the Corpus-Nos. of the Vladimir Prison cell, date of the transfer]
1–102; June 19, 1950
1–80; June 19, 1950
2–92; June 20, 1950
1–78; August 21, 1950
3–46; September 12, 1950
2–2; November 9, 1950
3–3; September 27, 1951
2–2; December 4, 1951
2–20; October 17, 1953
Convicted by: Special Council [OSO] under the MGB of the USSR
Date: October 29, 1949
Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: espionage
Term: 25 years of t/z [imprisonment]
Beginning of the term: December 19, 1947
End of the term: December 19, 1947
Property to be confiscated
[The prisoner] died on October 30, 1953
DOCUMENT 10
A letter to Stalin signed by Abakumov and Ogol’tsov10
B.[ook] 3
SPECIAL FILE [a stamp]
Top Secret
Central Committee of the VKP(b) [Bolshevik Party]
To: Com.[rade] I. V. STALIN
We are presenting to you two drafts of the Decisions of the C[entral] C[ommittee]of the VKP(b):
First: On the creation of the Bureau No. 1 for the terrorist activity abroad, on the approval of the structure of this Bureau and on the appointment Com.[rade] P. A. Sudoplatov its Head and Com.[rade] A. M. Korotkov its Deputy Head;
Second: On the creation of the Bureau No. 2 for the execution of special tasks within the Soviet Union, on the approval of the structure of this Bureau and on the appointment Com.[rade] V. A. Drozdov, currently working Deputy Minister of State Security of the Ukrainian SSR (information is provided), its Head.
We ask for your decision.
I do not object. I. S. [Stalin’s resolution in handwriting]
No. 6990/A
August 4, 1950
DOCUMENT 11
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVE
Moscow, Solyanka Street 14 Tel. K 7–82–13
No. 20–167 January 5, 1962
To Citizen Mairanovsky Grigory Moiseevich
Moscow G–21, Frunzenskaya Naberezhnaya, 8, ap. 17
ARCHIVAL RECORD
According to the partly preserved documents about the work of Mairanovsky Grigory Moiseevich at the Bach Institute of Biochemistry of the Narkomzdrav [Commissariat of Health] and the Gorky All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine [VIEM], it is possible to recreate the following sequence of citizen G. M. Mairanovsky’s duties at those institutes:
1. Aspirant [post-graduate student] at the Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 1928–1929.
2. A researcher at the Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 1929–1932.
3. Senior Researcher at the Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 1932–1933.
4. Head of the Toxicology Department at the Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 1933–1935.
5. Head of the Special Laboratory at the Gorky All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine [VIEM], 1935–1937.
6. Senior Researcher at the Special Toxicological Laboratory of the Gorky All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine [VIEM], 1937–1938.
7. Senior Researcher at the Pathology Department of the OV [Poison Substances] Therapy at the Gorky All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, 1938–1940.
Citizen G. M. Mairanovsky was dismissed from the Gorky All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine on February 16, 1940.
DOCUMENT 12
R S F S R
People’s Comissariat of Health
A. N. Bach STATE SCIENTIFIC
INSTITUTE of BIOCHEMISTRY
June 10, 1934
No. 580
Vorontsovo pole, 9
Teclass="underline" 5–34–20
C E R T I F I C A T E
Given to Com.[rade] MAIRANOVSKY G. M. Currently he is Deputy Director of the A. N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry.