Machine / system · Ivanov's Ghost
The Sharashka System
Prison design bureaus
The Sharashka System in the timeline
1932 Vasiliev begins systematic telepathy experiments
Inheriting Bekhterev's programme, Leonid Vasiliev begins rigorous experiments in 'mental suggestion at a distance' in Leningrad, using hypnosis and electromagnetic shielding.
1932 Begins telepathy experiments
Vasiliev begins systematic experiments in mental suggestion at a distance, using hypnosis and electromagnetic shielding.
1939-02 Laboratory No. 1 formalized
In February 1939 the NKVD moves Mairanovsky's poison research into its 4th Special Section, systematizing lethal experiments on condemned prisoners. The often quoted date of 20 February rests on Birstein, not on a file reference.
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