Yuri Kondratyuk
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Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk, real name Aleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei, was a Soviet engineer and mathematician. He was a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician and a visionary who, in
Kondratyuk in 1941
Kondratyuk's monument at the site of his alleged burial in Bolkhovsky
A 2002 Ukrainian postage stamp commemorating Kondratyuk.
Sharashka
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In the Soviet Union, a sharashka was a type of secret research and development laboratory operating from the 1920s to the 1950s within the Gulag labor camp system, as well as in other facilities under
Yuri Kondratyuk
…to collapse. Convicted of "anti-Soviet activity", Kondratyuk was sentenced to three years in a gulag, but because of his evident talents was sent to a sharashka (research facility prison) rather than a labour camp. There, he was first put to work evaluating foreign coal mining machinery for the use in Kuzbass…
Tupolev's sharashka TsKB-29 of NKVD in Omsk (1943)