1 Alexander Bolonkin USSR NASA, USA LIFE. SCIENCE. FUTURE Concentration camp, USSR. New York 2 Alexander Bolonkin LIFE. SCIENCE. FUTURE (Biography notes, researches and innovations. Translation from Russian by Yulia Plotnikov) New York 3 Acknowledgement The author thanks Professor at the University of Perm Oleg Pensky for active endpoint support the publication of this book, Julia Plotnikov for translation and explanation of abbreviations. 4 Contents Preface 6 Part 1. Life in the USSR 7 1. Ancestors.(from the memoirs of sister Anne Bolonkin). 7 2. Childhood 10 3. Perm Aviation College and the Regional Laboratory of model aircraft (1948-52) 15 4. Kazan Aviation Institute (KAI, 1952-1958) 19 5. Experimental Design Bureau of O.K. Antonov 27 6. Doctoral Dissertation. Moscow Aviation Institute. 37 7. Experimental Design Bureau of V.P. Glushko 40 8. Moon Race 48 9. Moscow Aviation Technology Institute (MATI). Moscow Higher Technical University named Bauman (MHTU) 61 10. Post-Doctoral dissertation 62 Part2. In Soviet Concentration Camps 67 1. Preface 68 2. Acceding to remedial activity 68 3. Propaganda leaflets 73 4. Arrest, investigation 73 5. Trial 76 6. Concentration camp JH-389/17а 77 7. Concentration camp hospital 78 8. Concentration camp JH-389/19 82 9. Penalty isolation ward and penalty cell (special prison) 84 10. Concentration camp in Barashevo 85 11. Road to exile 89 12. First exile 90 13. Second arrest 98 14. Ulan-Ude prison 99 15. Second trial. Concentration camp ОV-94/2 102 16. Third arrest and fabrication of a damning ―new case‖ 105 17. Second exile. 107 APPENDIX #1 according to the materials of radio station ―Svoboda‖/(―Freedom‖) 111. 1. ―Amnesty International‖ Statement. 2. The leaflet of Civil Committee. 3. A. Bolonkin‘s appeal to Chairmen of Soviet Supreme Council N. Podgorny. 4. Appeal of academician Sakharov in defense of A. Bolonkin. 5. Appeal of Elena Bonner and other members of Moscow group ―Helsinki‖ in A. Bolonkin‘s defense. 5 6. From radio broadcast of radio station ―Svoboda‖. 7. Valreiy Rubin and Michael Litvinov, "To Alexander Bolonkin" /poems/. APPENDIX #2. Barbarities of communist secret police in the USSR APPENDIX 3. Some statistics on the repression of 1917 - 1953 years. APPENDIX 4. NKVD - KGB: the killing poisons. APPENDIX 5. Repressive policies of Khrushchev. APPENDIX 6. KGB again the human rights movement in the USSR. Part 3. Abroad. NASA and research laboratories of the Air Force U.S. 142 1. Departure from the USSR 142 2. Vienna. Austria 143 3. Italy 145 4. U.S. 146 5. Rehabilitation 147 6. IASPPV (International Association of former Soviet political prisoners and victims of communist regime) 149 7. Outcast or Communist victims are out of Law 150 8. Explosion of Bolonkin‘s vehicle. Anatoly Trofimov 155 9. On the death of murderer Trofimova 159 10. Work in a scientific laboratory's main base U.S. Air Force Wright-Peterson 160 11. Jerusalem impressions 164 12. NASA 171 13. Disadvantages NASA 179 14. NIAS (Institute for Advanced Concepts of NASA) 180 15. Military base and scientific laboratories in the Eglin Air Force (Eglin), Florida 183 Appendex: 1. Spurt in the future (my ideas and inventions). 188 Breakthrough to the Future Transformation of the Earth Immortality of Human and Electronic civilization Country and Planet beautification Gas lines Energy Transportation Technology of the future Exploring Outer Space Future Weapons Possible Global catastrophes and disasters Femtotechnology and converting of matter in energy Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight References 201 2. Reflections on life, humanity and science 203 6 Preface A human life is special. It may turn this or that way and put you on trial. Unfortunately, young people very often make the same mistakes their parents did. That is why if we have a look at biographies of senior people – especially those ones who lived unusual lives and had very special destinies – it may help us to avoid many mistakes, delusions, wrong decisions and deceit. Of course, political powers, authorities, regimes and social situation constantly change, but there are some vital general basics always remaining in a human society and they are quite necessary to be realized and understood for an individual to survive and not to repeat stupid mistakes of older generations. This is the prime and important goal of this book. The author of this book is a researcher. A main goal of any true researcher is impartial and comprehensive investigation of the reality, discovering its laws and building models of nature, environment, human and society behavior. These laws help to predict human and environment reaction to our activity, and consequently, achieve required results and make all human progress move forward. The most important feature of a true researcher is the ability to change (or revise) his opinions, conclusions and regulations in case the reality response does not coincide with his theories and forecasts. The author worked a lot for Soviet aviation, rocket and space industries and in research labs of the NASA and USAir Force. He was not much interested in minor routine technical problems which were again and again to be solved by engineers and scientists in the course of projecting, designing and final operational development of some spacecraft or rocket, and which he was supposed to deal with by virtue of office. His spare time was devoted, first of all to breakthrough technologies of the future which would make mankind leap to a new stage of technological progress. Some of these technologies suggested by the author are understandably expounded in a special Appendix to this book (Breakthrough to the Future) Besides current and future problems of aviation, astronautics, energy, breakthrough technologies of the future he devoted a lot of time to the purpose of existence and to the future of mankind, or more exactly to the future of Intellect and Universe. The Self-copying System Complexity Increase law discovered by Alexander Bolonkin explains not only beginnings of Homo Sapience on Earth, but also its inevitable transition into E-creatures and to Superior Intellect (to God, as true believers would say), to a total control by its Universe laws and creation of new Universes with new life. All these ideas are compactly and plainly expounded in a special chapter of this book (Pondering on Life, Progress, Mankind and Science) so that a reader uninterested in these problems may just skip this section. 7 Part 1. Life in the USSR. My Ancestry (My Sister Anna’s Reminiscences) Grigoriy (our great grandfather, a grandfather of our mother Olga) lived in the village of Kosteneevo, Elabuga region in Tataria (current Tatarstan). He was educated – he finished 2 grades of parochial school – and for a time even was elected to be a starosta (a village elder in Russian village communities) in his village of 400 homesteads. The village belonged to the state (to a Tzar), so there was not base estate and people there were not serfs; they were not dependent on a landlord, instead they paid a land tenure rent once a year. Acreage for sowing was given to peasants according to a number of males in a family. Those who wanted more than that could buy a land from peasants who were not going to cultivate their piece of land. Grigoriy had two children: son Dmitriy and daughter Maria (see my family tree). Our grandfather Dmitriy had four sons and four daughters. Our mother Olga was the last but one child. The family of Dmitriy had been very hard working. Grigoriy was the head of the big family and he was the one to command. In summertime members of the family worked in their household, but in winter Grigoriy used to send Dmitriy out to make some money on the side by working as a carrier by trade. He drove a troika sledge (carriage-and-three) for region authorities (local authorities). The fourth one was a carthorse and was used for ploughing and other household needs. They had a two-storey country house - the first storey was actually a basement (ground floor) with ground-low windows. The second storey was used for living in a frost-free season, and the basement was used when the cold season came. The sons of Dmitriy got married and started to live separately. But Dmitriy still stayed with his father as Grigoriy disagreed to let Dmitriy start his separate family. The old man was afraid of living all alone and running the house alone. Being on the rebound Dmitriy started to booze up and finally became an alcohol addict. When Dmitriy again asked his farther to parcel him out a piece of land Grigoriy set their house on fire in revenge. 12 more houses of their neighbors also got burnt. So, Grigoriy‘s son, 2 grandsons, 2 granddaughters and Arina, Dmitriy‘s wife became homeless. As old Grigoriy was guilty of setting fire to property, he was committed to be jailed into a deep pit. Dmitriy built a new house for himself, his wife Arina, his daughters Olga (our mother), Uljana and sons Semyon and Andrey. Dmitriy was a kind man. Once when he caught a poor landless widow stealing straw he just shamed her and never told anyone. The woman had nothing to heat her stove with. There were no woods in the neighborhood, so villagers stoked their stoves with straw and thatch for warmth and cooking. Samovars were set to boil with pinecones from the woods of Landlord Sherbakov. This landlord was quite an advanced man. He was the first to give his serfs freedom so that his steward could invite peasants to work for salary. Due to the fire apples got baked right on apple-trees.