Gorlov Alexander M.
1. Autobiographical story of Gorlov A.M. "A case in the country" (parts 2 - 5), published in the magazine "Neva" No. 5 for 1991 (20 sheets, magazine clipping)
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Gorlov Alexander M.
Genus. 03/23/1931 in Moscow. In 1938, his father was arrested and executed. The family moved to Leningrad. In the summer of 1941 he was evacuated to the Kirov region, where he lived in an orphanage until 1945. He moved to Moscow. In 1954 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers, Faculty of Bridges and Tunnels. He worked in the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a foreman of bridge train 59, then, from 1956, as a foreman in Kursk. He got married and had a son in 1959. In 1961 he defended his Ph.D. thesis. Since 1961, he worked as chief. specialist at the TsNIPIASS Institute (formerly Giprotis) in Moscow. In 1971 he submitted his doctoral dissertation for defense. 08/12/1971 - “incident at the dacha” A.I. Solzhenitsyn, where G. was beaten by KGB officers, after which he refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement; received threats of revenge from the KGB. In March 1973, the leadership of TsNIPIASS rejected the defense of G.'s dissertation as a discriminatory measure. In July 1973, he sent a letter to L.I. Brezhnev with a protest against a campaign of political bullying at work; He is under covert surveillance. Dismissed in April 1974 due to accusations of friendship with A.I. Solzhenitsyn. In June 1974 he refused to cooperate with the KGB. Due to the impossibility of getting a job in his specialty, he left for Vorkuta to work as a carpenter and digger. In September 1974 he returned to Moscow. Received refusals to hire for a job in his specialty. Mentioned in the appeal by A.D. Sakharov and I.R. Shafarevich to the international community with a call to oppose the persecution of dissident scientists in the USSR. He was called to the KGB to propose emigration to Israel. Submitted documents to the OVIR. On 08/07/1975 he emigrated with his family to Boston. In the USA he received the title of Doctor of Science, patented a technical invention - the “Gorlov turbine”. Author of the autobiographical story "An Incident at the Dacha" (1975), published in Paris in 1977.
