Vadim Birstein - The Perversion of Knowledge

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.

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

Tel: 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.

Secretary of the Institute (Sorokina)

Signature

Seal of the A. N. Bach Institute

A copy from a copy

USSR

Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti [KGB]

under the USSR Council of Ministers

Personnel Department

January 22, 1962

No. 14.4/M–4329

Moscow

C E R T I F I C A T E

Given to Grigory Moiseevich Mairanovsky, born 1899. He worked at the NKVD-MGB from September 15, 1938 till December 1951. He was dismissed because he had been tried [by court] and convicted.

The information is based on the archival personal file and was given for submission to the social security office.

Head of the Personnel Department of the KGB

under the USSR CM [Council of Ministers] (Ovechkin)

Seal

ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES of the USSR

ALL-UNION SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL and MEDICAL-TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Moscow, Zh–240, Ust’inskii proezd, 2/14 Tel: K 7–79–49

No._______ July 3, 1963

To citizen MAIRANOVSKY G. M.

ARCHIVAL EXCERPT

Protocol [transcript] No. 13

Of the meeting of the Scientific Council of the VIEM

on October 20, 1943

Present: 20 members of the Scientific Council (a list of names)

Chairman: Director of the VIEM Professor Grashchenkov

Agenda:

3. Approval of scientific degrees and titles.

Hearing: 3. Approval of the Professor of Pathophysiology title of C.[omrade] Mairanovsky G. M.

Decision: 3. To provide C. Mairanovsky G. M. with the scientific title Professor of Pathophysiology

Voting: “yes” 16, “no” 1, “abstentions” 2

Chairman:

Professor N. I. Grashchenkov signature

Scientific Secretary:

Professor C. A. Kharitonov signature

Head of the Scientific Archive:

Bagdasar’yan S. M. signature

Seal of the Scientific Archive of the Medical Academy

R S F S R

Ministry of Interior

Prison No. 2

Vladimir Region

December 13, 1961

CERTIFICATE No. 82061

Series No. VTs

Given to citizen GRIGORY MOISEEVICH MAIRANOVSKY, born in 1899 in the city of Batumi, nationality Jew. He was condemned by a Special Council of the MGB of the USSR on February 14, 1953 to 10 years of imprisonment according to the paragraphs 193–17a and 179 of the Criminal Code. He served his term in the MVD prisons from December 13, 1953 until December 13, 1961 and was released after finishing his term.

Head of the Prison signature

Head of the MVD Unit signature

Secretary of the Prison signature

Seal of Vladimir Prison No. 2

1. Last Name: Mairanovsky

2. Name: Grigory

3. Patronymic Name: Moiseevich

4. Year of birth: 1899

5. Place of birth: the city of Batumi [Georgia]

6. Address: Moscow, Frunzenskaya naberezhnaya, 10A, ap. 17

7. Profession (speciality): medical pharmacologist

8. Place of work, position: Senior Engineer, Laboratory No. 1 OOT MGB of the USSR

9. Party membership: former member of the USSR Communist Party

10. Nationality: a Jew

11. Citizenship: USSR

12. Date of the arrest: December

13, 1951

13. Type of crime: —

14. Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 193–17-a [abuse of his position], 179 [illegally keeping strong acting chemicals]

15. Place of the fulfillment of the card (mention the prison, KPZ [police station], camp, colony): the city of Vladimir, Special Prison of the MGB

March 6, 1953

Person who filled out the card: V. Danilova

Organ (in charge of the arrest): Department for the Especially Important Cases of the MGB of the USSR

No. of the Case: 51

[Nos. of the Corpus-Nos. of the Vladimir Prison cell, date of the transfer]

3–57; March 3, 1953

Convicted by: Special Council [OSO] under the MGB of the USSR

Date: February 14, 1953

Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 193–17-a, 179

Term: 10 years of TZ [imprisonment]

Beginning of the term: December 13, 1951

End of the term: December 13, 1961

[The prisoner] arrived from Butyrka Prison of the MGB of the USSR, Moscow, on March 3, 1953.

On June 7, 1953 [the prisoner] was taken to Inner [Lubyanka] Prison of the MVD of the USSR, Moscow. The reason: a request No. 16/10/3–155783 of the 1st MVD Special Department dated June 4, 1953.

1. Last Name: Mairanovsky

2. Name: Grigory

3. Patronymic Name: Moiseevich

4. Year of birth: 1899

5. Place of birth: the city of Batumi [Georgia]

6. Address: Moscow

7. Profession (speciality): a doctor

8. Place of work, position: Senior Engineer, Laboratory No. 1 OOT MGB of the USSR

9. Party membership: former member of the VKP (b) [Bolshevik] Party

10. Nationality: a Jew

11. Citizenship: USSR

12. Date of the arrest: December 13, 1951

13. Type of crime: abuse of his position and illegally keeping strong acting chemicals

14. Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 193–17-a, 179

15. Place of the fulfillment of the card (mention the prison, KPZ [police station], camp, colony): Prison No. 2

July 6, 1956

Person who filled out the card: I. Shchelanova

Organ (in charge of the arrest): 2nd Main MGB Directorate

No. of the Case: 51

[Nos. of the Corpus-Nos. of the Vladimir Prison cell, date of the transfer]

3–22; July 4, 1956

3–43; September 19, 1956

2–36; October 31, 1956

2–23; December 6, 1956

1–48; January 28, 1957