Gleb Nershin
Nikolaj Schtschagow
Wladimir Tschelnow
Stalin
'Ruska' Rostislav
Pyotr Makaraguine
Viktor Abakumov
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.