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=Mykhailo Pilipovich Krawtchouk=
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Mykhailo Pilipovich Krawtchouk (* September 27th 1892 in Chovnitsy, † March 9th 1942 in Kolyma)

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==Life==
At this time political life in the USSR revolved round the exposure and suppression of alleged plotters against the regime. The country was subjected to an vigorous campaign against so-called enemies of the people. There was a series of public trials and in a massive terror campaign against the population as a whole. The worst phase of the terror took place during the period 1937-38 when at least five million people were sent to camps mostly in the Arctic. In 1937 Krawtchouk was accused of being a Polish spy and also a bourgeois nationalist. He was arrested, tried and sentenced to twenty years in prison and five years in exile. As part of the punishment imposed on him, Krawtchouk was stripped of his membership of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and his exile was to be spent at the Kolyma camp in northeastern Siberia, one of the two most notorious of the Corrective Labour Camps. He died at the age of 49 in Kolyma, one of the Labour Camps set up by the Gulag. 

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==Sources==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kravchuk Wikipedia]

[http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Krawtchouk.html St. Andrews]