The Sentence and Rehabilitation of E. D. Polivanov
In August, a new wave of purges took place at the Institute: X. Karasaev, who was working on the Kyrgyz-Russian dictionary, was dismissed as an accomplice of the exposed counter-revolutionary nationalist Tynystanov, Yan-Shan-Sin was relieved from production work, and soon the Turkologist I. Batmanov was also removed from his position. Y. D. Polivanov was taken to Tashkent. Here, on April 25, 1938, a traveling session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to