All-Union Institute of Law (Moscow)
All-Union Institute of Plants
All-Union Institute of Plant Breeding Bureau of Herbs
All-Union Institute of Sugar Beets
All-Union Physiology Society
All-Union Research Institute 1 (VNII-1) for Gold and Rare Metals
All-Union Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Microorganisms (VNII Genetika),
All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO)
Alliluev, Pavel (Stalin’s second wife’s brother)
Allilueva, Anna (Stalin’s second wife’s sister)
Allilueva (Politkavskaya), Kira
Allilueva, Nadezhda (Stalin’s second wife)
Allilueva (Stalina), Svetlana (Stalin’s daughter)
Allilueva, Yevgenia
Allilueva case
Alma Mater Libera (company)
American Communists
American Embassy (Moscow)
American Navy (USA)
Amnesty International
Anatomical Institute (in Posen)
Andreev, Andrei (Politburo member)
Andreev, Daniil (writer)
Andrew, Christopher (British historian)
Andropov, Yurii (KGB Chairman and Soviet leader)
Anichkov (scientist-prisoner)
Anovitsky (Red Army)
Anpilov, Viktor (left-wing Russian politician)
Anti-Semitic campaign (Soviet) anthrax (disease)
Antonov-Ovseenko, Anton (historian)
Antonov-Ovseenko, Vladimir (Bolshevik)
Anuchin, Dmitrii (Academician)
Architects’ Club House (Moscow)
Armenian Academy of Sciences
arsenic gas (chemical weapon)
Arshinov, Vladimir (geologist)287 article 58 (Russian Criminal Code)
Artillery Academy (Leningrad)
Artuzov, Artur (VCheKa)
Arzamas-16 (Soviet secret town)
Arzumyan, Anushavan (Academician)
Ashby, Eric (British biologist)
Askaniya Nova (natural reserve)
aspirantura
Astaurov, Boris (Academician)
Auerbach, Charlotte (German/English geneticist)
August 1948 Session
August (1991) coup
Auschwitz (Nazi extermination camp)
Automation Institute (Novosibirsk
Academy of Sciences)
autopsy
Avakian, Artavazad (Lysenkois)
Avdulov, Nikolai (biologist)
Bach, Aleksei (Academician)
Bach Institute of Biochemistry (Moscow, Academy of Sciences),
Bacillus anthracis (microbe)
Baev, Aleksandr (Academician)
Bakatin, Vadim (MVD Minister)
Bakeev (General)
Balashova, Ariadna (MGB victim)
Balishansky, I. N. (NKVD/MGB)
Bandera, Stepan (Ukrainian emigrant)
Barannikov, Viktor (MBVD Minister)
Baranov, Pavel (botanist)
Baransky (geographer)
Baroyan, Oganes (KGB doctor)
Barratt, Reginald (MGB victim)
Barsukov, Mikhail (FSK Head)
Barvikha Governmental Sanatorium
Bashtakov, Leonid (NKVD/MGB)
Batitsky, Pavel (General)
Bauman Higher Technical School (Moscow)
Bazenko (prosecutor)
Bazilevskaya, Nina (biologist)
Beletskaya, Irina (Academician)
Bellona Foundation (environmental group)
Belorussian Academy of Sciences
Belozersky, Andrei (Academician)
Belozersky Laboratory of Bioorganic
Chemistry
Benediktov, I. A. (Commissar of Agriculture)
Beneshevich, Vladimir (historian)
Berg, Axel (physicist)
Berg, Leo (biologist)
Berg, Raissa (geneticist)
Bergman, Yakov (see Serebryansky) Beria, Lavrenty (NKVD/MVD
Commissar/Minister)
Bersol (Soviet factory for chemical weapons)
binary nerve agent
bioethics
biological community
biological warfare/weapons
Biological Faculty (Moscow University)
Biophysics Department
Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Histology Department
Scientific Council
Biopreparat (institute, Moscow)
Biopreparat program
Biopreparat-Tsentr (company, Moscow)
“birdies” (humans used for experiments)
Birstein, Avadii (author’s grandfather)
Birstein, Jacob (author’s father)
Bizet, Charles (composer),
Blokhin, Nikolai (Academician)
Blokhin, Vasilii (Lubyanka Prison Commandant)
Blome, Kurt (Nazi doctor)
Bobryonev, Vladimir (prosecutor and a writer)
Bohr, Niels (physicist)
Boldyrev, Anatolii (geologist)
Boldyrev, Vladimir (prosecutor)
Bolshevik(s)
Central Committee
coup
doctrine
ideology
Party
regime
Revolution
takeover
Bolshevization
Bondarenko, Aleksandr (Party functionary)
Bonner, Yelena (Sakharov’s wife)
Boriskin, Pavel (Soviet Chief Military Prosecutor)
Borodin, Ivan (Academician)
Borodin, Pavel (Russian official)
Borodin, Vladimir (scientist)
Boronin, Aleksandr (biologist)
Botanical Institute (see Institute of Botany) Botanical Journal,
Botkin Central Clinical Hospital (Moscow)62 Boyarsky, Vladimir (NKVD/MGB)
Braunstein, Aleksandr (Academician)
Brezhnev, Leonid (Soviet leader)
Brigadefuhrer SA
Broverman, Yakov (NKVD/MGB)
Bruck, Grigorii or Girsh (author’s great uncle)
Bruck, Pavel (author’s great uncle)
Bruch, Sophie (author’s grandmother)
Brunovsky, Bruno (chemist)
Bryden, John (writer)
Buckner, Robert (producer)
Bukharin, Nikolai (Bolshevik/Soviet leader)
trail
Bukharin, Yurii (Bukharin’s son)
Bukharina-Larina, Anna (Bukharin’s wife)
Bulanov, Pavel (NKVD)
Bulganin, Nikolai (Soviet Minister of Defense)
Bulgarian Communist Party
Bulgarian Secret Service
Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists (a journal)
Bunin, Ivan (writer)
Burdenko, Nikolai (Academician),
Bureau of Experimental Studies
Bureau of Herbs
Burmin, D. (doctor)
Burnazyan, A. (Deputy Minister of Health)
Butov, P. (geologist)
Butova, Yelena (a doctor in Vladimir Prison)
Butovo (village)
Butuzov, Valerii (KGB/SVR)
Butyrkskaya or Butyrka Prison (Moscow)
Bykov, Konstantin (Academician)
Bykov, Valerii
Byzov, Boris (chemist)
Candidate of Science
carbylomine cholinchloride or C-2 (toxin)
cardiac glycosides
Casablanca (movie)
Case of Academicians
castor-oil seeds/plants
Catherine II the Great (Russian Empress)
Center of Toxicology and Hygienic Regulation of Biopreparations (within Ministry of Health)
Central Executive Scientific Committee
Central Committee of the Bolshevik/Communist Party
Central Commission
Plenum
Politburo
Presidium
Science Department
Secretariat
Central Forest Reserve
Central Institute of Epidemiology and
Microbiology
Central Institute of Final Medical Education (within Medical Academy)
Central Institue of Physics and Technology
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Central Scientific Investigation Institute for Special Technology (KGB) (Moscow)
Central Scientific Research and Testing Institute of Chemical Troops (a secret Russian installation; see Volsk-17 and Shikhany-1)
Chayanov, Aleksandr (economist)
Chebrikov, Viktor (KGB Head)
Chechens (rebels, war)
Chekhov, Vladimir (biologist)