Nikolai Gorbunov
Sovnarkom patron of Ivanov's expedition
Timeline - Gorbunov in the record
5 events from the Ivanov's Ghost archive.
Nikolai Gorbunov is born; he will become Lenin's secretary and a manager of Soviet science.
Lenin's death opens the succession struggle Stalin will win. Gorbunov, Lenin's secretary, loses his protector even as he keeps organizing Soviet science.
Roughly ten thousand dollars is allocated through the Academy of Sciences for Ivanov's human-ape expedition in 1925. Gorbunov, business manager of the Sovnarkom, is usually named as the man who arranged it; no source used here documents his part.
The purges of 1937-38 consume officials, officers and scientists alike. Gorbunov is arrested on 19 February 1938 and shot on 7 September 1938; Vavilov will be arrested in 1940.
Arrested on 19 February 1938, Gorbunov is shot at Kommunarka near Moscow on 7 September 1938. He is rehabilitated in 1954.
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