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Georgy Demidov (Russian: Гео́ргий Гео́ргиевич Деми́дов) (November 29, 1908 – February 19, 1987) was a Soviet physicist, political prisoner and writer. Born in Saint Petersburg to a working-class family, Demidov showed technical and engineering gifts at an early age. He graduated from Kharkiv University, he was a student of Lev Landau. In the winter of 1938, as a part of the so-called UPTI Affair, he was arrested in Kharkiv, where he was working at the Kharkov Electrotechnical Institute as an experimentation physicist, after being served a summons for an internal passport check. It was a check that was to last eighteen years. His interrogator threatened to arrest Demidov's wife, and orphan his five-month-old daughter. Demidov confessed and was sentenced as a Trotskyist, but did not accuse anyone else, and was sent to corrective labor camps. For fourteen years he served in the Kolyma region of Siberia, ten in the most brutal of conditions. In 1946, he received a second sentence, after which he sent a telegramm to his wife that was in the form of an official telegramm informing her of his death. In the main camp hospital, Demidov became acquainted and then a friend to a hospital assistant, the…