Borovka (Borovko) Grigory Iosifovich

Genus. in 1894 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a musician-teacher. Graduated from the classical department of the IFF SPbU (1912-1918). Left to prepare for a professorship at the university (until November 1919). After the October Revolution, the whole family, except him, emigrated to Germany. Since 1918, employee, since 1921 - keeper of the Scythian section of the Hellenic-Scythian department of the State Geography. He actively participated in the re-evacuation of State Hermitage collections from Moscow. In parallel, since 1919, he has been an employee of RAIMK. He taught the history of ancient art at the State Institute of Fine Arts, prehistoric archeology at Leningrad State University/LILI/LIFLI (Associate Professor, then Prof.). After a business trip to Mongolia with the expedition of P.K. Kozlov in 1924, he turned from antiquity to the study of Scythian culture. He conducted excavations throughout the Eurasian steppes, from Crimea and Kuban to Tuva and Mongolia. In 1924-1926. together with S.A. Teploukhov, he led the study of the Noin-Ula burial mound in Mongolia. In 1926-1929. repeatedly went on business trips to Western European countries. In 1927, a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute was elected. Organized the first exhibition of masterpieces of art from the Noin-Ula burial mounds in Berlin in 1928. In April-May 1929, he negotiated in Germany about organizing a joint Soviet-German expedition to study monuments of Gothic culture in Crimea. But in the fall of 1929 he was no longer allowed to attend the International Archaeological Congress in Spain, and on September 21, 1930 he was arrested (according to the testimony of L.A. Mervart, a defendant in the “AN case”). 10/07/1931 The OGPU Collegium sentenced him to 10 years in labor camp on charges of espionage for Germany (Article 58-6 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR). At the beginning of February 1932, he arrived from the Leningrad houseworks in UkhtPechLag (he was in charge of the geological museum, lectured on geological courses, studied paleontology, and collected a large archaeological collection in the Ukhta region). He spent part of his term (Jan. 1939 - Sep. 1940) in camp hospitals (Vetlosyan, then Sangorodok). At the end of his term, on September 21, 1940, he was released from UkhtIzhemLag, but not released from the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and worked as a civilian in the geological exploration office of the Ukhta Combine. On November 6, 1941 he was arrested as a “socially dangerous element” (German by origin) and at the end of the year, according to eyewitnesses, was shot. His unpublished monograph on the Chertomlytsky Kurgan was taken during his first arrest by OGPU officers and disappeared without a trace. Rehabilitated in 1989