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MAI graduate. Moscow Aviation Factory No. 1, then Kyiv Aviation Factory No. 43. Academic Secretary of the All-Ukrainian Institute of Structures. Arrested 23 October 1937 under NKVD Order 00485. Shot at midnight 20 January 1938 in the basement of the NKVD UkrSSR internal prison, Institutska St., Kyiv. Posthumously rehabilitated 25 April 1958.

Moscow Conservatory 1934. Married Mark c. 1934. Taught at the Kyiv Conservatory. Reassigned to Kuybyshev (now Samara) by the All-Union Committee on Arts after Mark's arrest, six months pregnant. Wrote four-page letter to Beria 3 November 1940 asking for the return of her seized grand piano. Died exactly one year, to the day, after her daughter Lidia.

Born five months after her father's execution; never met him. Gnessin Music College, then GITIS theater-studies faculty. Published in Театр; worked Soviet radio; published in Sion 1976 and Kontinent 1977. Married Igor Abramovich; one son, Alex. Emigrated June 1976 via Vienna. Taught Russian and Soviet criticism at the University of Pittsburgh, 1977–1979. Ovarian cancer; spiritual-healer trip to the Philippines November 1978. Died at Tanya Lechtman's house in Glen Cove, age 42.

Moscow Institute of Biophysics — basis for the OVIR refusal (state-secrets exposure). Sakharov-Bonner inner circle. Emigrated June 1976; divorced from Lidia in late 1970s. Drove a taxi in New York. Died less than five months before this site began.

Bessarabia. Name first appears in the dossier in Mark's handwritten confession of 4 November 1937.

Mentioned in the case-file biographical inventory; remained in Bessarabia.

Name not yet recovered. Listed in passing in the case-file biographical inventory.

Authorized head of the Kyiv Operational Department (KOU), NKVD UkrSSR. Principal investigator on the Babad case; firmly attested on the indictment (Vol. 1, p. 17). The first-page reading "Kaminsky / Kholminsky" is provisional.

Gave the keystone deposition that overturned the 1937 fabrication. Identification beyond the surname not yet recovered.

Supporting deposition.

Supporting deposition. (The Bisnovat surname suggests possible aviation connection — Matus Bisnovat was a Soviet missile-and-aircraft engineer; relation to be verified.)

Supporting deposition.

Vol. 3 cross-references the related NKVD case file 768117 on "Neiman, Alexander Semenovich, and others" — almost certainly the group case constructed in parallel with Babad's.

Sakharov and Bonner describe Lidia and Igor as "close friends" in their journals. His 22 January 1980 exile to Gorky was the subject of Lidia's last surviving essay.

Names Lidia and Igor as close friends in her journals. Her daughter Tanya Bonner-Yankelevich's home in Newton, MA, was where Alex stayed for some months in 1978–79 while Lidia was in treatment.

Mentioned in the family papers as part of the Sakharov-Bonner-adjacent circle Igor moved in.

Emigrated to Newton, MA in 1977. Hosted Alex while Lidia was in treatment, 1978–79. Married to Efrem Yankelevich.

Former Moscow piano student of Zinaida; cared for Lidia at the family's Glen Cove home in summer 1980. Her husband Sasha Lechtman was the household's other anchor.

Preserved seven of Lidia's late letters in his published memoir ("Letters of Lidka-filippinka," Otstuplenie 4). Visited the Philippines in 1979 in an unsuccessful attempt to bring her back. Wife: Verunya Kozarova, who carried letters between Moscow and the U.S.

Met the family in Vienna with an avocado when they emigrated in June 1976. Honorary doctorate, Uppsala University, 2005; Russian Pushkin Medal. Recipient of Lidia's and Zinaida's late letters; preserver of much of the correspondence record.

Recipient of the long Pittsburgh letter on the $1,700 check, the new apartment, V. K.'s near-fatal car accident, Zinaida's visa refusal, and the Akhmatova.

Recipients of Lidia's "Borya and Lyusya" letter on the Fonvizin course, Pittsburgh full-time-instructor status, the elderly-woman babysitting work, and Igor driving taxi in New York.

Recipient of Lidia's reply offering the Pittsburgh History of Russian Criticism course as a series of articles. Specific journal not yet identified.