Gaze Vera Fedorovna

Definition: Soviet astronomer
Years of life: 1899 - 1954
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Genus. in 1899. In 1924 she graduated from Petrograd University. Astronomer. In 1921-1926. She worked at the Astronomical Institute in 1926-1936. - at the Pulkovo Observatory. In November 1936, she was arrested in connection with the “Pulkovo case” and released in 1940. In 1940-1954. worked at the Simeiz branch of the Pulkovo Observatory (since 1945 - as part of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory), in 1941-1945. - at the Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory. She was buried at the Pulkovo cemetery in Leningrad.

Info:

Robert A. Mccutcheon. The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers// Slavic Review, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 100-117

Documents (1)

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Гаген-Торн Нина Ивановна
7. Homemade book Gagen-Thorn N.I. “My city, my house”, compiled by Gagen-Thorn’s daughter G.Yu. from the mother's works concerning the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 2000.