Kessel Oskar Zinovievich
Design engineer
Born August 21, 1905 in Artemovsk, Donetsk region, in the family of an engineer, at the age of 8 he became deaf from scarlet fever. He graduated from seven classes of a vocational school as an external student in 1920. In 1924 he came to Leningrad, in 1925 he entered the design bureau of the Zhdanov shipbuilding plant. Member of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) in 1930-1937. Member of the Society of the Deaf. Lived in Leningrad (Pestelya St., 13/15, apt. 29). In 1937 he worked as the head of the reinforcement group of Design Bureau No. 17 of the Zhdanov plant. Arrested in 1937, charged under Articles 17-58-8 and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR with participation in an anti-Soviet fascist terrorist organization created among the deaf-mutes of Leningrad. Sentenced by the decision of the Specialized Directorate of the NKVD for the Leningrad Region on 19.12.1937 to 10 years in a labor camp. Released in 1940 (according to the house register, he returned from Arkhangelsk on 16.09.1939). Worked in the Central Design Bureau No. 17 of the People's Commissariat of Shipbuilding (Baltic Shipyard), head of the design team. Awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Retired in 1966.
Дата возвращения
Фонд Р-7965. Опись 117. Дело 1815. Л.221
Cases (1)
Documents (6)
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Кессель Оскар Зиновьевич
1. Photo by Kessel O.Z.

Fund 017 (К-1) / Inventory 1 / Case 054
1. The indictment in case No. 104855 on charges of members of the Leningrad Society of the Deaf and Dumb (53 people) dated 02.11.1937.











































Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Кессель Оскар Зиновьевич
2. An article by engineer Smaltzer V. "The Ship Builder" in the newspaper (no data) for [1970] about the work of Kessel O.Z.
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Кессель Оскар Зиновьевич
3. Biographical information on Kessel O.Z., compiled after 1986.

Fund 017 (К-1) / Inventory 1 / Case 054
5. Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Special Troika of the UNKVD LO No. 249 dated 12/19/1937 in the case of the Leningrad Society of the Deaf and Dumb, containing the sentences of the convicts in the case.



Fund 017 (К-1) / Inventory 1 / Case 054
6. Determination of the VT LenVO dated 12/06/1955 in the case of the Leningrad Society of the Deaf and Dumb.



