Vavilov Nikolay Biography

Date of birth: November 25th place of birth: G. Place of death: Saratov Prison Place of Burial: It is known, but an individual grave is not a date of arrest: August 6 G. accusation: participation in the anti-Soviet organization, wrecking, espionage condemnation: July 9 G. Bio-bibliographic dictionary of orientalists-sacrifices of political terror in the Soviet period. The main goal of Vavilov’s works is to increase the yield of cultivated plants and in this way with the threat of lack of food.

Under the direct leadership of Vavilov, the largest collection of plants was collected, which reached thousands of samples by the year. Vavilov developed the theory of the source material in selection, the law of homological series in hereditary variability, the theory of centers of origin and shape formation of cultivated plants, deduced the concept of the species as a system of genotypes.

To collect and analyze the scientific material, Vavilov with expeditions visited about 50 countries. Punitive bodies used paid denunciations, the testimony against Vavilov was busted by some colleagues under the threat of repression. As noted during the rehabilitation of the largest scientist in the year in the decision of the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, “the testimony of the arrested - Muralov, Margolin, Avdulov, Kuleshov, Pisarev, Panshin, Bondarenko, Karpechenko, Flyxberger, Gorodetsky, Zolotyrov and others were attached to his case.

An additional check established that the first nine people from the listed persons subsequently abandoned their testimony as fictional. The testimonies of the rest of the persons are uncomplicated, contradictory and extremely doubtful. So, for example, Sizov and Gandelsman showed that from the words of Belitser, Cyon and Tartakovsky they know about Vavilov’s belonging to a counter -revolutionary organization.

However, in the process of verification, these testimonies of Sizov and Gandelsman did not find their confirmation in the case file on Belitser, Cion and Tartakovsky. Similar indications and other persons. In the process of verification, it was found that the preliminary investigation in the Vavilov case was carried out with a gross violation of the Code of Criminal Procedure, biased and tendentially, which is visible at least from the following: and in Vavilov, there are a number of copies of the interrogation protocols, whose originals did not detect interrogations of Chayanov, Trifonov, Sidorov, Jordanova and Ziherman.

In Vavilov’s case, there is a copy of the extract from the Muralov interrogation protocol of August 7, this fact indicates the falsification of investigative materials ... Another member of the expert commission Zubarev showed that the commission did not engage in Vavilov’s activity and only signed the conclusion, unknown who was written in the process of verification Pisarev, Vasiliev, Emma and others, as well as academician Lysenko, as well as academician.

They described Vavilov positively, as an outstanding scientist, and spoke highly about his activities. ” Lieutenant Gos. Academy. I used to be a royal privat, but remained to live in my country, which is still Russia. ” Vavilov, "in a long search", M. When visiting the Institute of Polish Consulate, closing in his office, conducted conversations with them without outsiders.

Solving the issues and profile of the department of the institute, Vavilov gave obviously wrecking attitudes to deal with abstract, scientific and theoretical issues, to study cultures that could not be used even in the near future in the economy of the USSR; At the same time, excluding and inhibiting the development of promising cultures. You can not give in to the position. You need to fight to the end.

" Nikolai Vavilov was arrested on August 6 in Chernivtsi during an expedition to Western Ukraine. Colleagues recalled: “He was taken so quickly that the people who arrested him did not even take his expeditionary bag. Late at night, some young people handed it to F. Bakhteev and V. Lechnovich a note from Nikolai Ivanovich, where he said that he was urgently called to Moscow, asked to transfer all his things to him: “Dear Vadim Stepanovich!

In view of my urgent call to Moscow, give all my things to the feeder of this. During this time, he was called for interrogations about times, the total time of interrogations was a clock. During the investigative work in relation to Vavilov, torture was regularly used. The whole thing, as historians later proved, turned out to be completely falsified, all the documents involved in the case were fabricated.

Serov, A. Khvat, L. Schwartzman, P. Vlodzimirsky approved the indictment in Vavilov’s “enemy work”. Nikolai Ivanovich sends Beria several petitions about pardon, where he indicates that “the accusation is built on fables, false facts and slander”, as a result, the execution was replaced by 20 years of camps. In the Saratov prison, Vavilov did not receive food. As recorded on January 26 of the year by the doctors of Stepanova and the violin, who examined the deceased, “the physique is correct, the fatness is sharply reduced, the skin is pale, the bone-minute system without changes ...

Death occurred due to the decline in cardiac activity.” After a couple of years, it was decided to report the death of the scientist to his family. I don't believe. Of all the native deaths, the most cruel. The last life threads break off. Anyway, to quarrel the sea or earth. Cursed consciousness. The reaction is one correct, to die as soon as possible in any way. There is nothing to restrain for.

God dissipated, only His relatives, but they are ready. And Nikolai so wanted to live and he knew how to do it. Lord, maybe it's still a mistake? I will never forget Olyushkin’s scream yesterday, crying when he told her about Nicholas. That was what was needed. And I have a frozen, petrified soul, almost ceased to live. There is only one reaction - I want to die myself, and if there was a revolver or poison at hand, maybe I wouldn’t be yesterday.

I work, I live like a machine gun, holding a thought, ”said Sergey Ivanovich Sergey Vavilov’s brother. The authorities of Nikolai Vavilov were obviously not sincerely understood. His manuscripts and field materials were mercilessly destroyed. Only one act of seizure was the Lieutenant GB Koshelev decided to“ destroy it as no value: 1. In total in 92 folders.

Notebooks and notebooks with various records - 90 pieces in this inventory of 26 points.

In the year, the ballerina N. Balerin liked the windows, she decided to settle here, the archive remaining in the apartment, the library and things of the scientist were sent to the landfill. A brief story of the arrest, Nikolai Ivanovich November 13, Moscow - January 26, Saratov prison - biologist, botanist, crop, geographer, geneticist, and breeder. Corresponding member of the category of biological department of physical and mathematical sciences from December 1, an academician for the separation of the physical and mathematical sciences of Botanik from January 12 is excluded from the list of academicians without approval by the general meeting.

Kobulov and on August 6 was approved by the People's Commissar of L. on the evening of the same day, Vavilov was detained in Chernivtsi and a plane was taken to Moscow "for urgent negotiations." In just 11 months of investigation, Vavilov withstood about interrogations with a total duration of about hours, on August 24 he recognized himself as a “participant in the anti -Soviet organization of the right, which existed in the system of the People's Commissariat of the USSR.” During a break in interrogations, September - March wrote the book "The History of the Development of Agriculture" "The world resources of agriculture and their use." Vavilov’s prison manuscripts, “as not having value”, were destroyed in June by decision of the investigator, Lieutenant of State Security A.

Ulrich on July 9, sentenced to death, on July 26, he was transferred to Butyrka prison to make a sentence. On the morning of October 15, a representative of Beria visited him and promised that Vavilov would leave him to live and provide him with his work in his specialty. In the severe stage of dystrophy, Vavilov entered the prison hospital two days before his death, died on the morning of January 26