Levin Veniamin Isaakovich

Definition: Northern expert, specialist in Even language and culture
Years of life: 1900-1938
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Genus. in 1900 in the city of Evpatoria. In 1907, he and his family went to Harbin, where in 1918 he graduated from a commercial school; For the next two years he studied in Shanghai at an English city school. In 1919 he left for the USA, where in 1922 he graduated from the University of California in the department of anthropology (ethnography); in 1923 he studied at the FMF in Heidelberg. At the end of 1923 he moved to Moscow and entered Moscow State University. In the 1920s participated in anthropological expeditions to Altai and the North Caucasus. In 1930 he was sent by the Committee of the North under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to the Okhotsk coast, where until 1933 he worked as an anthropologist. and linguistics studies of settled and nomadic coastal populations. On Dec. 1933-1935 Head of the Department of Northern Languages ​​at the Institute of Northern Peoples. Head of the national sector of Lengoslitizdat. Arrested on 10/06/1937 by the NKVD LO in the case of Alkor (Ya. P. Koshkin) (Article 58-6 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR - “he was an agent of Japanese intelligence, from 1936 to the day of his arrest on the territory of the USSR he was engaged in espionage activities in favor of Japan”) . Convicted on 01/05/1938, the Commission of the NKVD and the USSR Prosecutor's Office sentenced in a special order to VMN. Shot on January 11. 1938 in Leningrad. Rehabilitated in 1958
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Topics: Harbin residents (former employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway, remigrants from Manchukuo)

Documents (2)

Fund 017 (К-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Крейнович Юрий (Ерухим) Абрамович
040. Additional testimony of the accused Shavrov K.B. dated 05/27/1937.
7 листов, 7 изображений, ксерокопия
Averyanov Nikolay Nikolaevich, Avrorin Valentin Alexandrovich, Arsenyev Vladimir Klavdievich, Bowerman Konstantin Ivanovich, Bezborodov Sergey Konstantinovich, Bilibin Nikolay Nikolaevich, Bogolyubov Konstantin Nikolaevich, Vasilevich Glafira Makarievna, Volynsky (Rabinovich) Viktor Yakovlevich, Gabbe Tamara Grigorievna, Grigoriev Nikolay Fedorovich, Zheldin Lev Borisovich, Zadunaiskaya Zoya Moiseevna, Kantor (Kanter), Komarov Vladimir Fedorovich (?), Koshkin (Alcor) Yan Petrovich, Kreinovich Yuri (Eruhim) Abramovich, Kremberg Maria Emilyevna, Levin Veniamin Isaakovich, Luks Karl Janovich, Lyubarskaya Alexandra Iosifovna, Maysler Mikhail Moiseevich, Malinovsky Boris Andreevich, Marshak Ilya Yakovlevich (pseudonym M. Ilyin), Marshak Samuil Yakovlevich, Mevzos Grigory Mironovich, Melnikov Georgy Ivanovich, Orlova Elizaveta Porfiryevna, Orlovsky Pavel Nikolaevich, Panteleev L. (real name Eremeev Alexey Ivanovich), Riches Lyubov Davidovna, Syomushkin Tikhon Zakharovich, Sergeev Mikhail Alekseevich, Stebnitsky Sergey Nikolaevich, Terletsky Petr Evgenievich, Physicist Fedor Matveevich, Forshtein (Maralov) Alexander Semenovich, Tsintsius Vera Ivanovna, Charnolusky Vladimir Vladimirovich, Chernetsov Valery Nikolaevich, Chukovskaya Lydia Korneevna, Shavrov Kirill Borisovich, Schneider Evgeny Robertovich, Shprintsin Alexander Grigorievich, Shtern Lidiya Abramovna
1937
Fund 017 (К-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Крейнович Юрий (Ерухим) Абрамович
059. Statement of Kreinovich Yu.A. dated 03/21/1955 to the Military Prosecutor's Office of the Leningrad Military District.
5 листов, 5 изображений, ксерокопия
1955