Leonid Konstantinowitsch Ramsin
Leonid Konstantinovich Ramsin ( Russian Леонид Константинович Рамзин ; born October 14 . Jul / 26. October 1887 greg. In the village of Sosnovka in Tambov , † 28. June 1948 in Moscow ) was a Russian engineer in the field of thermal engineering. In 1930 he became a victim of Stalin and was imprisoned, but was then released and received the Stalin Prize in 1943 .
Life
Ramsin attended the boys' grammar school Tambov and the Moscow Higher Technical School . In 1921 he took over the management of the Thermal Engineering Institute of the Soviet Union . He was involved in the development and implementation of the Plan for the Electrification of Russia (GOELRO) .
"Trial against the industrial party" and imprisonment
In 1930 he was charged in the bogus Prompartija trial ("Trial against the Industrial Party "). His statements, in which he described in detail the activities of an allegedly existing underground organization of engineers (for example the preparation and support of a foreign intervention in the Soviet Union and the establishment of military bases for it), became the main focus of the investigation against him and the other accused. He was sentenced to death by shooting ; the sentence was commuted to 10 years in prison. In captivity he continued work on the steam boiler he had developed . In 1933, the first such steam boiler was put to trial in the TEZ-9 thermal power station .
Captivity, amnesty and the Stalin Prize
In 1934 he took over the management of a design office, which was located in the 9th department of the KGB . Arrested engineers worked in this design office; it became one of the first sharashkas . In 1936, Ramsin was released on amnesty . In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize for outstanding scientific inventions. Ramsin worked at the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering . In his book The Archipelago GULAG (Volume 1, Chapter The Law is Ripe , page 366), Alexander Solzhenitsyn described Ramsin as the “prototype of the cynical and brilliant traitor”. All seven scientists whom he accused during the Prompartija trial perished in prison. Until his death, Ramsin was ostracized and ignored by Soviet science.
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| SURNAME | Ramsin, Leonid Konstantinowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ramzin, Leonid Konstantinovich; Ramzin, Leonid; Рамзин, Леонид Константинович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sosnovka |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1948 |
| Place of death | Moscow |