The Beginning of the Great Trials

Abstract

The story I have reported above should be seen as the trigger that determined the events that during 1937, in Kharkov, involved the physicists of the Ukrainian Physics-Technical Institute. What happened, there and at that moment, however, was only a part of a much wider stream of events that passed through the U.S.S.R., alarmed everybody and caused great anxiety in the small group of the Ukrainian Institute.