Дорога на эшафот

This publication is dedicated to the biography of Nikolai Vavilov, illustrated with black-and-white photographs of N. Vavilov, facsimile of documents and letters. The book was banned in the USSR

Vavilov Nikolai Ivanovich (1887-1943) - geneticist, botanist, breeder, geographer, public figure. Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and VASKhNIL. Based on trumped-up charges, he was arrested in 1940, convicted in 1941 and sentenced to death, which was later commuted to a 20-year prison term. Died in prison. In 1955 he was posthumously rehabilitated

Reznik Semyon Efimovich (1938) - writer and publicist, author of historical documentary stories and biographies, popularizer of science, radio host