Vaivod Anton Norbertovich

The text is a detailed testimony of Tomsk scientist Alexander Frantsevich Kovalevsky, convicted in 1982 for reading and distributing banned literature. The document describes the course of the investigation, the fabrication of charges, the conditions of detention, the trial, the reaction of colleagues and relatives, as well as the subsequent professional and personal persecution. Particular attention is paid to the role of KGB and prosecutorial officers, as well as the atmosphere of fear and denunciation that permeated the scientific community. This story is an important testimony to the repressive policies of the late Soviet era and an attempt to preserve the memory of its victims.

List of names :

• Alexander Avtorkhanov is a historian and publicist, author of the book “Technology of Power”, banned in the USSR.
• Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky is a poet convicted in the USSR of parasitism, later a Nobel laureate.
• Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov is a writer, author of the story “Heart of a Dog”, which was considered banned literature.
• Vaivod Anton Norbertovich is the judge who presided over the trial of Kovalevsky.
• Zinoviev Alexander Alexandrovich - philosopher and sociologist, author of the book "Communism as Reality".
• Kovalevsky Alexander Frantsevich - candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, associate professor, Tomsk scientist, convicted in 1982 for reading and distributing samizdat.
• Kopelev Lev Zinovievich - writer, author of the memoirs "To Keep Forever", included in the banned literature.
• Kendel Valery Mikhailovich is a defendant in the same case as Kovalevsky, sentenced to 1.5 years.
• Marchenko Anatoly Tikhonovich is a dissident and the author of the book “My Testimony”.
• Popyrin (name not given) was the prosecutor at Kovalevsky's trial, who brought charges based on the content of banned books.
• Sergeev Alexander Dmitrievich - captain of the City Clinical Hospital, investigator in the Kovalevsky case.
• Fast, Wilhelm Genrikhovich - an employee of TSU, an acquaintance of Kovalevsky, with whom he discussed what he had read.
• Chernyshov Anatoly Alekseevich - forensic expert, defendant in the case, sentenced to 3.5 years, disabled; his cooperative apartment was confiscated.

Source of images: website of the Tomsk Regional Library named after Pushkin ( https://elib.tomsk.ru/ ):
Stone Bridge: literary and artistic almanac. - Tomsk, 2005

Khanevich Vasily Antonovich, Vaivod Anton Norbertovich, Zinoviev Alexander Alexandrovich, Brodsky Joseph Alexandrovich, Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich, Kovalevsky Alexander Frantsevich, Kopelev Lev Zinovievich (Zalmanovich), Kendel Valery Mikhailovich, Marchenko Anatoly Tikhonovich, Popyrin Yu.V., Sergeev Alexander Dmitrievich, Fast Wilhelm Genrikhovich, Chernyshov Anatoly Alekseevich

A note in the Tomsk regional newspaper "Krasnoe Znamya" for August 20, 1992, No. 148.
The article mentions other publications, in particular, an article in the newspaper "Krasnoe Znamya" for August 11, 1992, the article "Bulgakov's Fan Gets a Promotion" (Tomsk Herald).

The author, head of the letters department of the newspaper "Krasnoe Znamya", examines the story of how a group of deputies of the standing commission on human rights of the regional Council (Lebedev K., Perov B., Fast V., Vasiliev V.) prevented former member of the regional court A. N. Vaivod from taking the post of head of the justice department of the Tomsk regional administration.

The article once again examines Vaivod's role in the fate of the 1982 defendants: Kendel, Chernyshov, Kovalevsky and Artsimovich. It also says that on May 27, 1992, A. Vaivod was appointed head of the regional justice department. Memorial expressed a strong protest against the decision of the regional administration.

An article about V. G. Fast, his family, and how the life of the associate professor of the Department of Mathematical Analysis changed after he was a witness in the Tomsk Book Traders Case in 1982.