Samoilovich Rudolf (Reuben) Lazarevich

Definition: Soviet polar explorer
Years of life: 1881–1939
Reproduction methods:
Genus. in 1881 in Azov in the family of a businessman; Jew; higher education: graduated from a gymnasium in Mariupol, studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Novorossiysk University, where he became close to the Social Democrats, came under police surveillance, and therefore continued his education in Freiberg, where he graduated from the Mining Academy in 1904. Returning to Azov, he was engaged in active illegal revolutionary activities, in 1906 he moved to Rostov-on-Don and there he continued to participate in gatherings, demonstrations, and campaigned among workers, Cossacks and soldiers. In June 1906 he was arrested, tried and exiled in chains to the village. Pinega of the Arkhangelsk province, fled, lived in St. Petersburg for two years using false documents in the name of Sorokin, established contact with the RSDLP, and in 1908 was again arrested and transferred to his place of exile. In 1910, with permission from the authorities, he moved to Arkhangelsk, became secretary of the Society for the Study of the North and at the same time secretary of the Society of Political Exiles. In 1912 he participated in V.A. Rusanov’s geological expedition to Spitsbergen; one of the initiators and first leader of the Northern Scientific and Fishing Expedition (1920-1925); after its reorganization - director of the Institute for the Study of the North (1925-1930), deputy director of the All-Union Arctic Institute (1932-1938); founder and first head of the department of polar countries at Leningrad State University (1934-1937); head of the rescue expedition on the icebreaker Krasin (1928); , professor (1928); head of the scientific part of the International Air Expedition on the airship "Graf Zeppelin" (1931); head of expeditions on the Rusanov (1932), Sedov (1934), Sadko (1936 and 1937-1938). He did not join the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, despite active pressure, motivating it this way: “I served the party in the most difficult years for it, now they are making a career with the help of the party, and my career is in the Arctic.” Arrested on July 24, 1938 in the sanatorium named after. Gorky in Kislovodsk, sent to Moscow at the disposal of the NKVD of the USSR, kept in the internal prison of the RKVD; sentenced by the Supreme Commissariat of the USSR Armed Forces on 03/04/1939 to VMN; shot 03/04/1939; burial place - Moscow, Donskoye Cemetery. Rehabilitated by the Military Commissariat of the USSR Armed Forces on April 16, 1957. A strait and an ice dome on Franz Josef Land, a bay on Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, a mountain and a peninsula in Antarctica are named in honor of Samoilovich; awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
Info:
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Topics: Repressed polar explorers

Cases (1)

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Samoilovich Rudolf (Reuben) Lazarevich

Documents (18)

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
1. A petition from the office to add to the case of Samoilovich R.L. a passport, two identification cards and a marriage certificate for Samoilovich R.L., addressed to the police officer of the city of Pinega (or Pinega district?). January 1909.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1909
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Орас Пауль Юрьевич
1. Photo by Horace P.Yu. in the company of Samoilovich R.L. and Aggie K.P., captured on the icebreaker "Krasin", 1928.
1 лист, 2 изображения, копия
1928
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Виттенбург Павел Владимирович
1. 1. An article by Z. Kanevsky “More terrible than all the elements” in the journal “Knowledge is Power” No. 12 of December 1989 about the repressed polar explorers Ermolaev M.M., Wittenburg P.V., Samoilovich R.L., Plisetsky M.E. (father of Maya Plisetskaya), Schmidte N.R., Evgenov N.I., Urvantsev N.N., Babich A.P.
6 листов, 6 изображений, ксерокопия
1989
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Бачманов Борис Михайлович
2. Lidia Goncharova's article "The Story of Captain Bachmanov" in the newspaper "October 30" No. 99 for 2010. about the fate of his grandfather Bachmanov B.M. and the whole family after his arrest.
2 листа, 2 изображения, оригинал
Bachmanov Alexey Mikhailovich, Bachmanov Boris Mikhailovich, Bachmanov Lev Borisovich, Bachmanov Nikolay Mikhailovich, Bachmanova (Biryukova) Kira Borisovna, Bachmanova Ekaterina Vasilievna, Bachmanova Iraida Mikhailovna, Bachmanova Nina Borisovna, Breinkopf A., Larkov Sergey, Lebedenko A., Legzdin Ya., Mindlin Em., Petrov Yu., Samoilovich Rudolf (Reuben) Lazarevich, Srednevsky Anton, Chikin, Shpanov Nikolai, Yuzhin D.
2010
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
3. Letter from R. Samoilovich to his family from Leningrad 07/05/1936.
2 листа, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
1936
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
4. Letter from R. Samoilovich to his wife Elena from the icebreaker “Sadko” dated July 10, 1936.
2 листа, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1936
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
5. Postcards from Samoilovich R. to the family (n\w 07/20/1938 and n\w 07/11/1938).
2 листа, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
1936
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
6. Internal prison receipt of the GUGB NKVD No. 4711 dated 10.27.1938 for accepting money in the amount of 30 rubles for prisoner R.L. Samoilovich.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1938
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
8. Notice addressed to M.M. Ermolaeva about permission Samoilovich E.M. entry into the USSR on a permanent basis from 01/18/1973.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1973
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
9. Marriage certificate of Samoilovich R.L. and Ermolaeva E.M. series I-AK No. 36319 issued 07/10/1973.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1973
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
11. Postcard from R. Samoilovich to his family, date unknown.
2 листа, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
12. Autobiographical story by Ermolaeva E.M. (?) “How I met my future husband Rudolf Lazarevich Samoilovich.”
1 лист, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Самойлович Рудольф (Рувим) Лазаревич
13. Letter from Samoilovich R.L. to his wife Elena from November 22? from Germany.
2 листа, 2 изображения, ксерокопия
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Ермолаев Михаил Михайлович
23. Certificate of the Supreme Court of the USSR Armed Forces No. 4n-024895 dated 08/03/1973 on the rehabilitation of R.L. Samoilovich. There is a handwritten note on the document “in the Samoilovich case, he was executed on 5/llll 1939 (signed by M.M. Ermilov).”
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия
1973
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Ермолаев Михаил Михайлович
24. Memories of Professor Z. Kanevsky about Ermolaev M.M., written in Moscow dated March 1992.
Memories of Professor Z. Kanevsky about Ermolaev M.M., written in Moscow dated March 1992. , pdf
19 листов, 19 изображений, электронная копия, распечатка компьютерного набора
Afanasyev Anatoly, Badigin Konstantin Sergeevich, Bogorov Veniamin Grigorievich, Kurt Woelken, Vavilov Nikolay Ivanovich, Gerasimov Sergey Apollinarievich, Goglidze Sergey Arsenievich, Dibner Vitaly Davydovich, Evgenov Nikolay Ivanovich, Ermolaev Alexey Mikhailovich, Ermolaev Leonid Alekseevich, Ermolaev Mikhail Mikhailovich, Ermolaeva Rogneda Yaroslavovna, Ermolaeva (Samoilovich) Elena Mikhailovna, Ermolaeva (Tizengauzen) Maria Emmanuilovna., Zabelin Igor Mikhailovich, Zvantsev Konstantin Mikhailovich, Zubov Nikolay Nikolaevich, Kanevskaya Natalia, Kanevsky Zinovy ​​Mikhailovich, Kolchak Alexander Vasilievich, Lavrov Boris Vasilievich, Lysenko Elena Mikhailovna, Makarova Tamara Fedorovna, Makhotkin Vasily Mikhailovich, Nalivkin Dmitry Vasilievich, Obruchev Vladimir Afanasyevich, Papanin Ivan Dmitrievich, Pryanishnikov Dmitry Nikolaevich, Samoilovich Vladimir Rudolfovich, Samoilovich Rudolf (Reuben) Lazarevich, Urvantsev Nikolay Nikolaevich, Ushakov Georgy Alekseevich, Jimenez Antonio Nunez, Schmidt Otto Yulievich, Shokalsky Yuly Mikhailovich, Shumsky Petr Alexandrovich, Ardeev Yakov
1992
Fund 016 / Inventory 1 / Case 17
38_а. Letter from the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg. and LO No. 10 / 44-1292 dated 07/03/2000 to the director of the Memorial Research Center V.V.
1 лист, машинопись
2000
Fund 016 / Inventory 1 / Case 17
38_а_1. Archival certificate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg. and LO No. 10 / 44-1292 dated 07/03/2000 for Samoylovich R.L.
1 лист, машинопись
2000
Fund 016 / Inventory 1 / Case 15
63. Letter from the Central Administration of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation No. 10 / AN-213 dated 02.22.2000 to the director of the Memorial Research Center V.V.
1 лист, 1 изображение
2000