Schmidt Nikolay Reingoldovich

Definition: Soviet radio amateur, radio engineer, communications worker.
Years of life: 1906-1942
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On June 3, 1928, he was the first in the world, from the village of Vokhma, Kostroma Region, to catch a distress signal from the crew of the Italia airship, which had crashed in the Arctic, on a makeshift receiver. Later he worked in the People's Commissariat of Communications of the USSR, in the research and testing station of the People's Commissariat of Communications of the Uzbek SSR, in the Uzbek Communications Administration. In December 1941, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and espionage. Convicted and shot in 1942. He was posthumously rehabilitated on August 12, 1984.
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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