UPTI Affair

UPTI Affair (Ukrainian: Справа УФТІ, Sprava UFTI; Russian: Дело УФТИ, Delo UFTI) was a criminal
case against a number of scholars of the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute in Kharkov, Soviet
Ukraine, by the GUGB during 1938, a part of the Great Purge.

As a result, the UFTI leaders, including a Soviet experimental physicist Lev Shubnikov, were arrested and
executed during this crisis. In the response to the state of affairs, the Soviet physicists Moisey Korets and Lev
Landau, wrote the leaflet which directly condemned Joseph Stalin and the secret police NKVD.

References
Yu.V. Pavlenko, Yu.A. Ranyuk, and Yu.A. Khramov (1998), «Delo» UFTI 1935–1937 (The UPTI
‘Affair’ 1935–1937). Kiev: Feniks.
Copy of the original text of Korets-Landau leaflet (in Russian) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki
pedia/ru/1/1b/Listovka.jpg)

External links
Documents regarding cases of Shubnikov, Rozenkevich, Gorsky and Korets (in Russian) (htt
p://russcience.euro.ru/document/ufti/ufti.htm)

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