Berner Wilhelm Mikhailovich

Genus. in 1903 in the city of Baranovichi, Minsk province. He graduated from a 3-year city school in St. Petersburg (1910-1913), Strelna gymnasium (1913-17), then a student at the North-Western Railway. Since 1920, volunteer of the Red Army, private; from the same year, member of the RCP (b). In 1920-1922, political worker of the Red Army. After demobilization, voluntarily in 1922-1926, driver of the RKKF; sailor of the merchant fleet, on the scientific ship "Vorovsky", in 1926-1929 a fireman at the Krasnaya Zarya plant (Leningrad); in 1929-1931 auditor of the regional financial department. In 1931, on a business trip from the district committee, he entered the LVI and studied at the TASS department, majoring in India. Participated in 1933 in the next Pamir expedition of the Academy of Sciences. After graduating from LVI, in 1935-1936 he was a graduate student at the IAE, but due to the liquidation of graduate school, he was expelled. In October 1936, head of the IAE office. In 1936 he was expelled from the CPSU(b) for “dulling class vigilance.” 05/09/1937 dismissed from the Institute of Atomic Energy "in connection with the transition to contract work", after which he was arrested. Administratively expelled on September 8, 1937 from Leningrad. In exile and in camps - until 1957 (Central Asia, the Urals, Dneprodzerzhinsk). Administrative expulsion was canceled with full rehabilitation by the Decree of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Leningrad Region dated October 6, 1956. He returned to Leningrad seriously ill and soon died of gangrene.