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Abakumov, Victor (MGB Minister)

Abarinov, Vladimir, (Russian journalist)

A-bomb Project (Soviet)

Abwehr (Nazi Military Intelligence)

Academician (description)

Academy of Medical Sciences (or Medical Academy)

Statutes

Academy of Sciences

Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and the Chemistry of Physiological Active Substances

Division of Biology

Bureau

Division of Earth Sciences

Division of Oceanography, Atmosphere Physics, and Geography

Division of Russian Language and

Literature

Economic Division

First Department

Foreign Section

Humanitarian Division

Library

Permanent Secretary

statute(s)

Ural Division

Acta Physica-Chemica (a journal)

actedron pentothal (a drug)

Acts of Abdications

Adams, Mark (historian)

Advanced Courses for Women (Moscow)

AFB (Federal Security Agency)

Agitprop (Directorate of Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee)

Agol, Isaak (Soviet geneticist)

Agoshkov, Mikhail (Academician)

Agranov, Yakov

(VCheKa/OGPU/NKVD)

Agricultural Academy (or VASKhNIL)

Akhmatova, Anna (Russian poet)

Albats, Yevgeniya (Russian journalist)

Albogachiev (NKVD/KGB investigator)

Alekhin, Mikhail (NKVD)

Aleksandrov, Aleksandr (Academician)

Aleksandrov, Anatolii (Academician)

Aleksandrov, Arkadii (administrator)

Aleksandrov, Daniil

Aleksandrov, Georgii (philosopher)

Aleksandrov, Vladimir (cytologist)

Alekseev, Vasilii (Sinologist)

Alfyorov, Aleksandr (school teacher)

Alfyorova, Aleksandra (school teacher)

Alfyorov, Zhores (physicist)

Alibekov, Kanatjan or Alibek, Ken (former Russian chemist)

Alikhanov, Abram (Academician)

Alikhanyan, Sos (geneticist)

All-Russian Congress of Doctors

All-Russian Council of Trade Unions (VTsSPS)

All-Russian Executive Committee (VTslK)

All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VCheKa)

All-Union Academy of Agriculture (see

Agricultural Academy) All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) (Moscow)

All-Union Association of Workers of Science and Technique to Assist Socialist Construction (or VARNITSO)

All-Union Botanical Society

All-Union Congress of Geneticists and Breeders

All-Union Council of People’s Industry (ofVSNKh)

All-Union Institute of Animal Breeding

All-Union Institute of Applied Botany and New Cultures (Leningrad)

All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine (or VIEM) (Moscow)

All-Union Institute of Fertilizers, Agrotechnics, and Soil Studies

All-Union Institute of Law (Moscow)

All-Union Institute of Plants

All-Union Institute of Plant Breeding Bureau of Herbs

All-Union Institute of Sugar Beets

All-Union Physiology Society

All-Union Research Institute 1 (VNII-1) for Gold and Rare Metals

All-Union Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Microorganisms (VNII Genetika),

All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO)

Alliluev, Pavel (Stalin’s second wife’s brother)

Allilueva, Anna (Stalin’s second wife’s sister)

Allilueva (Politkavskaya), Kira

Allilueva, Nadezhda (Stalin’s second wife)

Allilueva (Stalina), Svetlana (Stalin’s daughter)

Allilueva, Yevgenia

Allilueva case

Alma Mater Libera (company)

American Communists

American Embassy (Moscow)

American Navy (USA)

Amnesty International

Anatomical Institute (in Posen)

Andreev, Andrei (Politburo member)

Andreev, Daniil (writer)

Andrew, Christopher (British historian)

Andropov, Yurii (KGB Chairman and Soviet leader)

Anichkov (scientist-prisoner)

Anovitsky (Red Army)

Anpilov, Viktor (left-wing Russian politician)

Anti-Semitic campaign (Soviet) anthrax (disease)

Antonov-Ovseenko, Anton (historian)

Antonov-Ovseenko, Vladimir (Bolshevik)

Anuchin, Dmitrii (Academician)

Architects’ Club House (Moscow)

Armenian Academy of Sciences

arsenic gas (chemical weapon)

Arshinov, Vladimir (geologist)287 article 58 (Russian Criminal Code)

Artillery Academy (Leningrad)

Artuzov, Artur (VCheKa)

Arzamas-16 (Soviet secret town)

Arzumyan, Anushavan (Academician)

Ashby, Eric (British biologist)

Askaniya Nova (natural reserve)

aspirantura

Astaurov, Boris (Academician)

Auerbach, Charlotte (German/English geneticist)

August 1948 Session

August (1991) coup

Auschwitz (Nazi extermination camp)

Automation Institute (Novosibirsk

Academy of Sciences)

autopsy