'Doctor Death'; ran the poison laboratory
10 referenced events from the Ivanov's Ghost archive.
Grigory Mairanovsky is born in the Black Sea port of Batumi into a Jewish family.
The Great War mobilizes European science for slaughter and, for the first time, industrial chemistry produces poison gas, the technology Mairanovsky will later refine for murder.
Under the NKVD, Grigory Mairanovsky's toxicology laboratory begins developing untraceable poisons, tested on prisoners condemned to death.
Mairanovsky takes charge of the NKVD's toxicology laboratory, testing poisons on condemned prisoners in search of an untraceable compound.
The NKVD reorganizes its poison research as Laboratory No. 1 under Mairanovsky, systematizing lethal experiments on condemned prisoners.
Mairanovsky's classified doctorate on mustard gas and skin leads toward K-2, a poison said to kill within a quarter of an hour and leave no trace.
The American Gulag prisoner Isaiah Oggins is killed with curare in Mairanovsky's laboratory, a documented case of the 'Kamera' at work.
As the antisemitic 'Doctors' Plot' gathers, 'Doctor Death' is arrested, charged with a fabricated Zionist conspiracy, and sentenced to ten years.
Amid the 'Doctors' Plot', Mairanovsky is arrested, charged with a fabricated Zionist conspiracy, and sentenced to ten years.
In his interrogation Beria confirms that he ordered Mairanovsky to test poisons on condemned prisoners; he is shot in December.