Levanda Ivan Mikhailovich

Born in 1868 in Nevyansk, Perm province; from the nobility - son of an active state councilor; Russian; higher education - graduated from the Forestry Institute; no name. Lived in Leningrad, Malaya Posadskaya St., Bldg. 19, Apt. 6.   Worked as an economist at the joint-stock company "Product". First arrested on 02/07/1933 for "correspondence with foreign countries", charged under Article 58-7 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, spent 3 months in custody. On 05/09/1933 the case was closed and he was released from custody.   He worked as a research associate at the Forestry Research Institute, and before his arrest he was a senior forester at Giprobum. He was arrested again on March 5, 1935. He was sentenced by the Special Conference of the NKVD of the USSR on March 9, 1935 as a “socially dangerous element” to 5 years of exile in Ufa. In Bashkiria, he worked at the hydrometeorological station as a research associate. He was arrested on October 27, 1937. He was sentenced by the NKVD Troika of the Bashkir ASSR under Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to capital punishment. He was executed on November 29, 1937 in Ufa. He was rehabilitated on July 27, 1989.

On 06.01.2017, a personal memorial sign was installed on house No. 19 on Malaya Posadskaya Street in St. Petersburg in memory of G.I. Levand as part of the "Last Address" project.