Obreimov Ivan Vasilievich
Soviet physicist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1958), founder and director of the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology (1929-1933). Winner of the Stalin Prize, first degree.
Genus. in 1894 in Annecy, France; Russian; higher education - graduated from Petrograd University in 1915. He worked in the physical laboratory of the Imperial Porcelain and Glass Factory. From 1918 to 1924 he worked at the State Optical Institute (GOI), then at the Leningrad Institute of Physics and Technology, and taught at Petrograd University (1922-1924) and the Polytechnic Institute (until 1928). At the end of the 1920s he moved to Kharkov, where he became one of the organizers of the Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute (UPTI), of which he was director until 1933 (then head of the laboratory). He organized the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics at the Kharkov Institute of Mechanical Engineering and became its first dean. During the period 1927-1930. He was sent four times to Germany, Holland, and England. He invited foreign scientists to work at the institute, which was one of the reasons for his arrest on July 22, 1938 for espionage (the so-called “UPTI case”). Charged under Art. 54-1a and 54-11 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR as an agent of foreign intelligence services and a participant in a right-wing Trotskyist organization. On November 19, 1940 he was sentenced to 8 years in forced labor camps. Sent to Kotlas. S. I. Vavilov, A. F. Ioffe, V. L. Komarov spoke in his defense. On May 21, 1941, the case was dismissed and he was released due to lack of evidence of a crime. During the Great Patriotic War, he worked at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Ufa) and at the State Optical Institute, which was evacuated to Yoshkar-Ola. Since 1950, he headed the department of general physics at the Moscow Mechanical Institute (since 1953 - Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI)), in 1954-1965. worked at the Institute of Organoelement Compounds of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and since 1965 at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
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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.
