
In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.
Innokenty Volodin

Stalin

Viktor Abakumov

Gleb Nershin

Lew Rubin

Nikolaj Schtschagow

Wladimir Tschelnow

Clara Makaraguine

Major Shikin

'Ruska' Rostislav

Aletvina Makaraguine

Pyotr Makaraguine

Riyumin

Nikol

Nadia Nerzhin

Dottnara Volodine

Grigory Adamson

Serafima Vitalyevna
Arthur Siromaka

Nina
Olga

Alisa Fedorovna

Sonia Sologdine

Poskrebychev

Alexei Velakovsky

Russian Officer
Shusterman

Yakonov

Oskolupov
Andrei Potapov

Principal I. Gerasimovich

Spiridon

Alexei Lansky

Roitman

Nedelashine

Nikolai Galakhov

Boris
Dof

Kliment
Chief Sergeant
Olenka

Lyuda
Zhenka
Kagan

Driver

Mechanic
Dinera

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man in phonebooth (uncredited)
