Sapir Isai Davidovich
Head of the Psychology Group at the Institute of Philosophy
Born in 1897 in Volkamir, Lithuania; Jewish; from the civil servants; higher education. Head of the Psychology Group at the Institute of Philosophy, and author of a number of works on psychoanalysis and the article “Personality” in the Great Medical Encyclopedia. Dismissed in 1931 and expelled from the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1936. Worked Head of the Nerve Department of the 1st Soviet Hospital, professor . Lived in Mogilev. Arrested on July 9, 1938. Sentenced on February 5, 1940 by a Special Conference of the NKVD of the USSR on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and counter-revolutionary activities to 5 years of exile. In exile in the Yakut ASSR. Rehabilitated by the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the BSSR on November 21, 1956. He was reinstated in the party on September 4, 1957. After rehabilitation, he took up teaching work. He died in 1976.
С.Н. Корсаков. Политические репрессии в институте философии (1930–1940-е гг.)