In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.
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as Innokenty Volodin
AliveBorn: September 3, 1955
Age: 71
Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
as Stalin
AliveBorn: October 24, 1939
Age: 86
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
as Viktor Abakumov
DeceasedBorn: December 13, 1929
Died: February 5, 2021
Age at death: 91
as Gleb Nershin
AliveBorn: June 1, 1944
Age: 82
Salford, Manchester, England, UK
as Lew Rubin
AliveBorn: March 16, 1949
Age: 77
London, Ontario, Canada
as Nikolaj Schtschagow
AliveBorn: December 11, 1958
Age: 67
Hanau, Germany
as Wladimir Tschelnow
DeceasedBorn: January 5, 1943
Died: May 11, 2026
Age at death: 83
as Clara Makaraguine
AliveBorn: June 12, 1969
Age: 57
Montpellier, Hérault, France
as Major Shikin
DeceasedBorn: December 15, 1941
Died: February 22, 2005
Age at death: 63
as 'Ruska' Rostislav
AliveBorn: April 18, 1968
Age: 58
Redhill, Surrey, England, UK
as Aletvina Makaraguine
AliveBorn: June 10, 1939
Age: 87
Montréal, Québec, Canada
as Pyotr Makaraguine
DeceasedBorn: February 17, 1916
Died: October 31, 2002
Age at death: 86
as Riyumin
AliveBorn: August 14, 1934
Age: 92
Nimes, France
as Nikol
DeceasedBorn: April 7, 1924
Died: October 17, 2006
Age at death: 82
as Nadia Nerzhin
AliveBorn: December 21, 1959
Age: 66
Orthez, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
as Dottnara Volodine
AliveBorn: November 1, 1959
Age: 66
Turin, Italy
as Grigory Adamson
AliveBorn: May 3, 1944
Age: 82
as Serafima Vitalyevna
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Arthur Siromaka
AliveBorn: September 8, 1954
Age: 71
Paris, France
as Nina
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Olga
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Alisa Fedorovna
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Sonia Sologdine
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Poskrebychev
DeceasedBorn: June 20, 1929
Died: January 28, 1994
Age at death: 64
as Alexei Velakovsky
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Russian Officer
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Shusterman
AliveBorn: May 11, 1960
Age: 66
Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada
as Yakonov
AliveBorn: August 17, 1951
Age: 75
St. Johns - Newfoundland - Canada
as Oskolupov
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Andrei Potapov
AliveBirth date not on record.
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