Case No. 555
CASE No. 555 (the case of the "Union of the Old Russian Intelligentsia") on charges of a large group of Leningrad scientists and university professors of creating an "anti-Soviet organization formed in July - August 1941 on the basis of previously existing groupings of the reactionary-minded part of the teaching staff." In January - March 1942, 127 people were arrested on fictitious charges, including professors B.D. Verzhbitsky, A.M. Zhuravsky, B.I. Izvekov, N.S. Koshlyakov, N.V. Rose, V.A. udekov, design engineer Yu.A. Zegezhda. April 23 - 24, 1942 The military tribunal of the NKVD troops of the Leningrad Front sentenced all the accused under Art. 58-3, 58-10 hours 2 and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to capital punishment. By the decision of the Supreme Court of the USSR of May 28, 1942, the execution was replaced by 10 years of labor camp. Verzhbitsky, Zegezhda, Izvekov, Rose, Sokolov, Timofeev, Tretyak, Khudekov died in custody.
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