Leonid Ramzin

Leonid Konstantinovich Ramsin (Russian Леонид Константинович Рамзин; * 14 Oktoberjul / October 26 1887greg in the village Sosnowka in Tambov, .. † June 28, 1948 in Moscow) was a Russian engineer in the field of thermal engineering. In 1930 he became a victim of Stalin and was sent to prison, but was released in 1943 and was awarded the Stalin Prize.

Life

Ramsin attended the grammar school boy Tambov and the Higher Technical School of Moscow. In 1921 he took over the management of the heat Technical Institute of the Soviet Union. He was involved in the development and implementation of the plan for the electrification of Russia ( GOELRO ).

" Trial of the Industrial Party " and detention

In 1930, he was accused ( " the trial of the Industrial Party ") in the fictitious Prompartija process. His statements in which he detailed the activities of an allegedly existing underground organization of engineers described ( for example, the preparation and support of a foreign intervention in the Soviet Union and the establishment of military bases to do so), became the main point of the investigation against him and the other accused. He was sentenced to death by firing squad; the sentence was commuted to a prison sentence of 10 years. In captivity he continued to work on his self-developed steam boiler. In 1933, the first such steam boilers in thermal power plant TEZ -9 was tested as used.

Captivity, amnesty and Stalin Prize

In 1934 he took over the management of a design office, which was located in the 9th Division of the KGB. In this design office arrested engineers worked; it was one of the first Scharaschkas. In 1936 Ramsin was released due to an amnesty. In 1943 he was awarded for outstanding scientific inventions of the Stalin Prize. Ramsin worked at the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering. In his book The Gulag Archipelago ( Volume 1, Chapter The Law is ripe, page 366) described Alexander Solzhenitsyn Ramsin as the " prototype of the cynical and brilliant traitor ". All seven scientists who he has accused during the Prompartija process, perished in prison. Until his death Ramsin was ostracized and ignored by the Soviet science.