19 NAMES.
DNEPROPETROVSK [DNIPRO]:
(1-11)
“ZORYA” NEWSPAPER [1-4]
[1] S.Yu. Sheinin, one of the oldest journalists on the newspaper Zorya [Dawn], has been expelled from the Party and dismissed from work for a favourable review of The Cathedral, a novel by Oles Gonchar (Ukr. Honchar) [1].
[2] M.T. Skoryk, Zorya, ridiculed the unfavourable article (“I see life differently”) concocted by G. Degtyarenko and others about the novel The Cathedral: expelled from the Party.
[3] V. Zaremba, Zorya, has been expelled from the Komsomol and dismissed from work after attacking an article, in which A. Kornienko (a KGB lieutenant), head of the Zorya information department, denounced The Cathedral (Sobor).
[4] I.P. Opanasenko, Zorya, has been dismissed from work.
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THEATRE, SCHOOL, PUBLISHERS …[5-11]
[5] Rimma Stepanenko, director of the Ukrainian Shevchenko Theatre (Dnepropetrovsk), has been expelled from the Party and dismissed from work for the production of a play by M. Stelmakh called The King’s Pal (Kum Korolyu).
[6] G. Prokopenko (Dnepropetrovsk), teacher at an evening school, has received a severe reprimand from the Party after insisting on the publication of an article that replies to G. Degtyarenko and I. Moroz, who denounced The Cathedral.
[7] S. Levenets, secretary of the Ukrainian Theatrical Society (Dnepropetrovsk section), has been dismissed from work.
[8] V. Chemeris, writer, employed at Promin publishers (Dnepropetrovsk), has been dismissed from work.
[9] Ivan Sokulsky, a poet from Dnepropetrovsk [2], has been dismissed from his job at the factory newspaper Energetik //produced from the Dnieper area.
[10] N. Dubinin (Dnepropetrovsk), editor of the factory newspaper Energetik, was questioned frequently on Party policy after he published a favourable review by workers D. Semenenko and V. Uniyat of The Cathedral.
[11] B. Karapish, writer, employed at Promin publishers (Dnepropetrovsk), has been given a severe reprimand by the Party.
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MOSCOW
[12]
Victor Sokirko [3], an engineer at the Moscow tube factory, signed the “Letter of 95” concerning the trial of those who participated in the 25 August demonstration.
He has been expelled from the Bauman Higher Technical Institute, where he was an external graduate student, on the recommendation of a factory meeting. A record of this factory meeting is available in samizdat.
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LENINGRAD
[13]
Gusev, senior scientific worker at the Zoological Institute (USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad), wrote several letters to the CPSU Central Committee: about an article in Pravda, “The KGB, fifty years of defending socialist legality” (21 December 1968); about Czechoslovakia; and about signs of Stalin’s rehabilitation.
In January 1969 he was expelled from the Party.
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GORKY
[14]
Valentine Yurkina, from Gorky, who retyped works of samizdat, was expelled from the Komsomol in the spring of 1968. In February 1969 she was dismissed from work “for unworthy behaviour”.
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KIEV
[15]
Irina Rapp, a member of the quantum generators department (Kharkiv University), signed ‘the Letter of 170’ concerning the Trial of Galanskov, Ginzburg, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova (CCE 1.2).
She has been summoned to interrogations about samizdat [4].
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MOSCOW (16 & 17)
[16]
Andrei Sakharov, Academician, “Father of the Hydrogen Bomb”, author of the well-known essay.
The Ministry of Medium Machine Engineering [5], at which Sakharov was a consultant, has dispensed with his services. Sakharov now holds a post only at his own institute, where no “special pass” is required.
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[17]
Aronov, a member of the Institute of Elementary Organic Compounds, abstained at a meeting where Czechoslovakia was discussed.
The institute did not apply for an extension to his Moscow residence permit and he was dismissed from work when his permit expired.
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PERM
[18]
Alexander and Yekaterina Lipelis, teachers at the Perm Pedagogical Institute, have been dismissed from work for possessing samizdat works.
Their dismissal was accompanied by a public inquiry at which offensive and barbaric accusations were made. Both were banned in future from teaching.
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KIEV
[19]
Vladimir Komashkov, a worker at the Kiev hydro-electric station and an evening student of the faculty of philology (Kiev University), was expelled from the university the day before he was due to defend his thesis, after taking his State exams.
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NOTES
- The storm which arose in Ukrainian cultural life over the novel The Cathedral by Oles Honchar (Gonchar), chairman of the UkSSR Writers’ Union, raged with special ferocity in Dnepropetrovsk [Dnipro], in the south-east of the country.
The featured photo shows Oles Honchar (1918-1995) in 1950.
↩︎ - On Sokulsky, see CCE 8.14 [4], CCE 10.15 [1], (CCE 11.15 [14], CCE 12.4 and Name Index.
↩︎ - On Sokirko, see CCE 7.12; CCE 20.12 [9], CCE 29.11 [10] and Name Index.
↩︎ - Later, as a member of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Rapp composed many of the biographies included in “The Dissident Movement in Ukraine”.
↩︎ - Euphemistically-named ministry responsible for Soviet nuclear weapons construction.
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