Wittenburg Pavel Vladimirovich

Genus. in 1884 in Vladivostok. Graduated from the University of Tübingen (Germany) in 1909. Worked on numerous expeditions: in 1912 - in the Ussuri expedition and geological exploration of the Muravyov-Amur Peninsula, in 1913 - participation in the expedition to Spitsbergen, in 1917 - expedition to the Dalniy East. In 1918 he organized a labor school in the village of Olgino. In 1919, the Cheka was arrested several times. Arrested in the spring of 1930 in the falsified “case of the historians of the Academy of Sciences,” he was sentenced to death, replaced by 10 years in the camps. He worked in logging, from the autumn of 1931 - in his specialty on the island of Vaygach, was released in the summer of 1935.