Bursian Viktor Robertovich
Geophysicist, specialist in electro- and thermodynamics, crystal physics, theory of electrical exploration, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Born 25.12.1886 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a doctor. Graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of St. Petersburg University. Until 1919 he taught physics at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute, from 1919 - at Leningrad State University, professor (1932), head of the Department of Theoretical Physics, dean of the Physics Department (1933), director of the Research Physics Institute at Leningrad State University (1934), founded in 1933, where an electrometry laboratory was created. Employee of various geophysical divisions of the Geological Committee of the Central Research Geological Prospecting Institute, organizer and head of electrical exploration work. In 1928-1933 - participant in a number of expeditions (Urals, West Siberian Lowland, Kuzbass, Kuznetsk Alatau, Caspian Lowland, Baku). Arrested on 15 October 1936 (according to other sources, 08 October 1936), accused of belonging to a "counter-revolutionary fascist organization" that had terrorist goals and was preparing an assassination attempt on Stalin (the geophysical branch of the "Pulkovo case"). Sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 25 May 1937 under Article 58-8-10-11 to 10 years' imprisonment. Sentenced to work in the Special Technical Bureau of the NKVD ("Kresty"), where he was engaged in thermal calculations for guns. With the outbreak of World War II, he was evacuated to the city of Molotov (Perm) together with the OKB. In May 1945 he returned to Leningrad. On 15 December 1945 he died in a prison hospital from kidney disease. Rehabilitated by the determination of the Military Commission of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 08 December 1956.
Биография
С.175-176
Ферхмин А. А. [Из воспоминаний жены В.Р. Бурсиана] / публ. и коммент.: Н. С. Крук
С.69-71, 122
Cases (1)
Documents (15)
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Бурсиан Виктор Робертович
1. Photo Bursian V.R. [until October 1936]

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Неймарк Матвей Яковлевич
1. Recording of a conversation between Malkovich R.Sh. and Neimark M.Ya. from 13.01.1986 about Neimark’s arrest in 1937 and about the people he met in the Internal Prison of the NKVD of the Leningrad Region.

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Бурсиан Виктор Робертович
2. Certificate No. 4520 on the death of Bursian V.R. 12/15/1945, issued by the Kuibysh Bureau of the ACS UNKVD in Leningrad on 03/05/1946.

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Балановский Иннокентий Андреевич
2. Article by N.V. Uspenskaya “Sabotage... in the study of a solar eclipse” about the arrests of Leningrad astronomers, published in the journal “Nature” No. 8, 1989, p. 86-98. (attached file)
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Бурсиан Виктор Робертович
3. Certificate (Form No. 30) of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR No. 4n-022672/56 dated 12/17/1956 on the cancellation of the verdict of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR dated 05/25/1937 in relation to Bursian V.R. and about his posthumous rehabilitation by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 12/08/1956.

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Бурсиан Виктор Робертович
4. Article by Bursian E.V. From the history of physics. Victor Robertovich Bursian (1886-1945)" in the journal "Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk", volume 155, issue 2, June 1988, p. 317 - 321.




Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Бурсиан Виктор Робертович
5. Article by Frenkel V.Ya. in the section “From Editorial Mail” of the magazine “Nature” for 1990 about the Kharkov Conference on Theoretical Physics in 1929 and about a photograph of its participants, among whom is Bursian V.R. and Ferkhmin A.A., p. 75 - 77.



Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Бурсиан Виктор Робертович
6. Memoirs of Ferkhmin A.A. about the arrest, imprisonment and rehabilitation of her husband Bursian V.R.







Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Болчис Василий Иванович
7. Covering letter from the RAF Department of the FSB for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region, ref. No. 10/21-7558 dated October 30, 1996, to the director of the Memorial Research Center Iofa V.V. on sending archival certificates to repressed OKB-172 employees V.I. Bolchis, V.R. Bursian, P.V. Goinkis, E.P. Ikonnikova, A.E. Kun, S.I. Lodkin, E.E. Papmel ., Rafalovicha G.N., Fomchenko S.I.
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Иконников Евгений Павлович
10. Letter of the RAF Service of the UFSB of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region No. 10/21-7558 dated October 30, 1996 to the Director of the St. Petersburg Scientific Center "Memorial" V. V. Iofe on sending archival information regarding the repressed Bolchis V. I., Bursian V. R., Goinkis P. G., Ikonnikov E. P., Kun A. E., Lodkin S. I., Papmel E. E., Rafalovich G. N. and Fomchenko S. I.

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Каган Виктор Кусиэлович
15. Memoirs of Kagan V.K. about his stay at OKB-172 from the summer of 1946 to the end of 1951.




Fund 016 / Inventory 1 / Case 2
47-1. Request of the St. Petersburg Research Center "Memorial" dated 03.10.1995 to the Information Center of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg about the available information on former prisoners of OKB-172 of the period 1937-1953. Azamatova P.P., Bovina V.A., Bursiana V.R., Groys A.S., Gun L.A., Dekaristo A.N., Zaremba A.V., Zubets M.A., Karpovich G.E., Kolbasnikova N.I., Kolupaeva E.V., Kolberg R.Ya., Korb E.A., Korman A.G., Korytny D.M., Ko Stereva P.P., Koshlyakova N.S. Kuna A.E., Lodkina S.I., Lukyanova N.G., Makulova N.A., Makhanova I.A., Moiseeva V.P., Morozova K.D., Noreiko K.S., Orlova F.F., Orlovicha L.K., Ocelina N.P., Petrov K.P., Petropavlovsky V.M., Pomer Ntseva V.V., Ponomarenko L.P., Popova V.I., Puzynyu P.S., Ruzova S.S., Sapozhnikova R.A., Smotkina P.A. Spiridonova E.N., Stashkevich S.I., Telesnina B.N., Tokova I.V., Urvantseva N.N., Fatyanova V.V., Fomchenko S.I., Chaika A.V., Chervinsky G.A., Shanin P.P., Shlesinger M.G., Yurchenko K.S., Yastrebova A.I., Yatsko G.V.

Fund 016 / Inventory 1 / Case 2
47-3. Archival data according to the information of the CCA ITs of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg dated 08.11.1995 on Azamatova P.P., Bursiana V.R., Gun L.A., Dekaristo A.N., Zaremba A.V., Zubets M.A., Karpovich G.E., Kolbasnikova N.I., Kolupaeva E.V., Kolberg R.Ya., Korb E.A., Korman A.G., Korytny D.M., Kostereva P.P., Koshlyakova N.S., Kuna A.E., Lodkina S.I., Makulova N.A., Makhanova I.A., Moiseeva V.P., Morozova K.D., Noreiko K.S., Orlov F.F., Orlovich L.K., Ocelin N.P., Petrov K.P., Petropavlovsky V.M., Pomerantseva V.V., Ponomarenko L.P., Popova V.I., Puzynyu P.S., Ruzova S.S., Sapozhnikova R.A., Smotkina P.A. Spiridonova E.N., Stashkevich S.I., Telesnina B.N., Tokova I.V., Urvantseva N.N., Fatyanova V.V., Fomchenko S.I., Chaika A.V., Chervinsky G.A., Shanin P.P., Shlesinger M.G., Yurchenko K.S., Yastrebova A.I., Yatsko G.V. and the absence of information on other persons.















Fund 016 / Inventory 1 / Case 3
160. Covering letter from the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region No. 10/21-7558 dated October 30, 1996 to the director of the Memorial Research Center Iofa V.V. (response to request No. 287 dated 10/12/1996) to archival information on V.I. Bolchis, V.R. Bursian, P.G. Goinkis, E.P. Ikonnikova, A.E. Kun, S.I. Lodkin. , Papmel E.E., Rafalovich G.N., Fomchenko S.I.

Fund 016 / Inventory 1 / Case 3
160-2. Archival certificate of the RAF Service of the FSB Directorate of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the region dated 10.30.1996 about the arrest of the NKVD LO on 10.08.1936 Bursian V.R., his conviction under Art. 58-8 and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR by the verdict of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR dated 05.25.1937 to 10 years in labor camp and on his rehabilitation by the ruling of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR dated 08.12.1956.
