Lapirov-Skoblo Mikhail Yakovlevich

Genus. in 1889 (1888?) in Vitebsk, in a working-class family. After graduating from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1913, he worked in the electrical industry. During the years of Soviet power, professor, doctor of technical sciences. He holds a number of major positions: director of the Research Institute of Communications, head of departments, editor of the newspaper Pravda and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Condemned by the Military Collegium of the USSR Armed Forces on July 11, 1941 to 15 years in prison with disqualification for 5 years. Accused of participation in a right-wing Trotskyist organization and espionage. Rehabilitated by the determination of the Military Collegium of the USSR Armed Forces dated May 28, 1955.