Samoilovich Rudolf (Reuben) Lazarevich

1909 - 1973
Annotation:
1. The application of the office for the attachment to the case of Samoilovich RL of a passport, two certificates and a marriage certificate of Samoilovich RL, addressed to the police officer of the city of Pinega (or Pinega district?). January 1909. (1 sheet, photocopy).
2. Fragments of a French-language printed publication from articles on the rescue of the ship Monte Cervantes by the icebreaker Krasin and the rescue of the crew of the airship Italia. (3 sheets, photocopy).
3. Letter from R. Samoylovich to his family from Leningrad, July 5, 1936. (2 sheets, photocopy)
4. Letter from R. Samoilovich to his wife Elena from the icebreaker “Sadko”, dated 10.07.1936. (2 sheets, photocopy).
5. Postcards by Samoylovich R. to the family (mailed on July 20, 1938 and mailed on July 11, 1938). (2 sheets, photocopy).
6. Receipt of the inner prison of the GUGB NKVD No. 4711 dated 10/27/1938 on the receipt of money in the amount of 30 rubles for the prisoner Samoylovich R.L. (1 sheet, photocopy).
7. A fragment of the publication of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR “Station on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island” dated 1932, dedicated to the organization and work of the station in 1927-1930. Stamp 1957. (2 sheets., photocopy).
8. Notification addressed to M.M. Ermolaeva on permission Samoylovich E.M. entry into the USSR on a permanent basis dated 18.01.1973. (1 sheet, photocopy).
9. Marriage certificate of Samoilovich R.L. and Ermolaeva E.M. series I-AK No. 36319 issued on 07/10/1973. (1 sheet, photocopy).
10. Handwritten list of dates and list of documents by E.M. Samoilovich for 1973, associated with her arrival in the USSR. (1 sheet, photocopy).
11. Postcard by R. Samoylovich to his family, date not set. (2 sheets, photocopy).
12. Autobiographical story by E. M. Ermolaeva (?) “How I met my future husband Rudolf Lazarevich Samoylovich.” (1 sheet, photocopy).
13. Letter from Samoylovich R.L. wife Elena from 22.11.? from Germany. (2 sheets, photocopy).
14. Letter from Umberto Nobile to E.M. Ermolaeva with congratulations on her return to Russia and best wishes. (1 sheet, photocopy).

Names (1)

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Samoilovich Rudolf (Reuben) Lazarevich
Definition: Soviet polar explorer
Years of life: 1881–1939
Reproduction methods:
Genus. in 1881 in Azov in the family of a businessman; Jew; higher education: graduated from a gymnasium in Mariupol, studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Novorossiysk University, where he became close to the Social Democrats, came under police surveillance, and therefore continued his education in Freiberg, where he graduated from the Mining Academy in 1904. Returning to Azov, he was engaged in active illegal revolutionary activities, in 1906 he moved to Rostov-on-Don and there he continued to participate in gatherings, demonstrations, and campaigned among workers, Cossacks and soldiers. In June 1906 he was arrested, tried and exiled in chains to the village. Pinega of the Arkhangelsk province, fled, lived in St. Petersburg for two years using false documents in the name of Sorokin, established contact with the RSDLP, and in 1908 was again arrested and transferred to his place of exile. In 1910, with permission from the authorities, he moved to Arkhangelsk, became secretary of the Society for the Study of the North and at the same time secretary of the Society of Political Exiles. In 1912 he participated in V.A. Rusanov’s geological expedition to Spitsbergen; one of the initiators and first leader of the Northern Scientific and Fishing Expedition (1920-1925); after its reorganization - director of the Institute for the Study of the North (1925-1930), deputy director of the All-Union Arctic Institute (1932-1938); founder and first head of the department of polar countries at Leningrad State University (1934-1937); head of the rescue expedition on the icebreaker Krasin (1928); , professor (1928); head of the scientific part of the International Air Expedition on the airship "Graf Zeppelin" (1931); head of expeditions on the Rusanov (1932), Sedov (1934), Sadko (1936 and 1937-1938). He did not join the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, despite active pressure, motivating it this way: “I served the party in the most difficult years for it, now they are making a career with the help of the party, and my career is in the Arctic.” Arrested on July 24, 1938 in the sanatorium named after. Gorky in Kislovodsk, sent to Moscow at the disposal of the NKVD of the USSR, kept in the internal prison of the RKVD; sentenced by the Supreme Commissariat of the USSR Armed Forces on 03/04/1939 to VMN; shot 03/04/1939; burial place - Moscow, Donskoye Cemetery. Rehabilitated by the Military Commissariat of the USSR Armed Forces on April 16, 1957. A strait and an ice dome on Franz Josef Land, a bay on Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, a mountain and a peninsula in Antarctica are named in honor of Samoilovich; awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

Documents (14)

1. A petition from the office to add to the case of Samoilovich R.L. a passport, two identification cards and a marriage certificate for Samoilovich R.L., addressed to the police officer of the city of Pinega (or Pinega district?). January 1909.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1909
2. Fragments of a French-language printed publication from articles dedicated to the rescue of the ship “Monte Cervantes” by the icebreaker “Krasin” and the rescue of the crew of the airship “Italy”.
3 листа, 3 изображения, ксерокопия
1928
3. Letter from R. Samoilovich to his family from Leningrad 07/05/1936.
2 листа, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
1936
4. Letter from R. Samoilovich to his wife Elena from the icebreaker “Sadko” dated July 10, 1936.
2 листа, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1936
5. Postcards from Samoilovich R. to the family (n\w 07/20/1938 and n\w 07/11/1938).
2 листа, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
1936
6. Internal prison receipt of the GUGB NKVD No. 4711 dated 10.27.1938 for accepting money in the amount of 30 rubles for prisoner R.L. Samoilovich.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1938
7. Fragment of the publication of the USSR Academy of Sciences “Station on Bolshoi Lyakhovsky Island” from 1932, dedicated to the Organization and work of the station in 1927-1930. Stamp 1957
2 листа, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
1932 - 1957
8. Notice addressed to M.M. Ermolaeva about permission Samoilovich E.M. entry into the USSR on a permanent basis from 01/18/1973.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1973
9. Marriage certificate of Samoilovich R.L. and Ermolaeva E.M. series I-AK No. 36319 issued 07/10/1973.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1973
10. Handwritten list of dates and list of documents by E.M. Samoilovich for 1973, associated with her arrival in the USSR.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1973
11. Postcard from R. Samoilovich to his family, date unknown.
2 листа, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
12. Autobiographical story by Ermolaeva E.M. (?) “How I met my future husband Rudolf Lazarevich Samoilovich.”
1 лист, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
13. Letter from Samoilovich R.L. to his wife Elena from November 22? from Germany.
2 листа, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
14. Letter from Umberto Nobile E.M. Ermolaeva with congratulations on her return to Russia and best wishes.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия