Alexander Barchenko

Alexander Vasilyevich Barchenko (Russian: Александр Васильевич Барченко; 1881, Yelets — April, 1938) was a Russian biologist and researcher of anomalous phenomena from St. Petersburg. In 1904 Barchenko attended the medical faculty of Kazan University, and subsequently entered Yuryev University (today Tartu University). He is known first and foremost for his researchings of Hyperborea in Russian Far East region.

Barchenko in 1937

In 1925, he met and corresponded with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who assisted him in his research and studies of religious and mystical matters.[1]

He was executed in Moscow during the Great Purge on April 25, 1938.[2]

See also

References
  1. Rapoport, Chaim. The Afterlife of Scholarship. p. 76 ISBN 9780615538976
  2. http://lib.rus.ec/a/49518
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