Florensky Pavel Alexandrovich

Genus. 01/22/1882 in locality. Yevlakh, Elizavetpol province. (modern Azerbaijan). He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow State University (1904) and the Moscow Theological Academy (MDA, 1908). From 1904 he lived in Sergiev Posad, Moscow province. Ordained a priest in 1911, in 1911–1921 he served as a priest at the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent (Sergiev Posad). At the same time, from 1908 to 1919, he was a professor at the Moscow Academy of Sciences in the Department of History of Philosophy and, from 1912 to 1917, he was editor of the Theological Bulletin. In 1918–1920, member of the Commission for the Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquity of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Since 1921, he was a professor at the printing and graphic department of VKHUTEMAS, and took part in the work of the Carbolite Commission of the Supreme Economic Council (until 1924). Since 1920, consultant, then employee of the State. Experimental Electrotechnical Institute (GEI). Since 1927 editor of the Technical Encyclopedia. Arrested on May 21, 1928 under the so-called “Sergiev Posad case”, sentenced by a resolution of the Special Meeting of the OGPU Collegium dated 06/08/1928 to exile to Nizhny Novgorod (“minus six”). Released from exile at the request of the Political Red Cross, on September 16, 1928 he returned to Moscow and was reinstated in his post. Author of religious and philosophical works, scientific works on mathematics and physics, as well as in the field of technology and materials science, and many others. etc. Arrested on February 26, 1933, sentenced by a resolution of the Troika at the OGPU PP of the Moscow Region. dated July 26, 1933 under Art. 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years in labor camp. In July 1933 he was transferred to Bamlag. From 12/01/1933 assigned to the research department of the Bamlag Administration. On 02/10/1934 he was transferred to the Skovorodino Experimental Permafrost Station (the village of Skovorodino, modern Amur Region), and was engaged in scientific research. In September 1934 he was transferred to the Solovetsky camp (arrived on October 23, 1934). He worked as an analytical chemist in the Yodprom laboratory until its closure in May 1937. In August 1937 he was transferred to prison regime. At the request of the 5th Department of the GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR, on October 10, 1937, he was transported to the mainland to be sent to Butyrka prison. By resolution of the Special Troika of the UNKVD LO dated November 25, 1937, he was sentenced to VMN. Shot on December 8, 1937 in Leningrad. Rehabilitated in the 1933 case by a resolution of the Moscow City Court dated 05/05/1958, in the 1927 case by a resolution of the Arkhangelsk Regional Court dated 03/05/1959.