"What's happening threatens a 'catastrophe for domestic aerodynamics': a Novosibirsk scientist has been arrested in a treason case."

How to clarifies "Taiga", citing a letter from employees of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, this scientist - Valery Zvegintsev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, founder of the laboratory "High-Speed ​​Aerogasdynamics" of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The letter states that over the past year Zvegintsev became the third Novosibirsk scientist from this institute to be charged with treason. Before him, there were Anatoly Maslov и Alexander Shiplyuk.

"They are all renowned for their brilliant scientific results. Their expertise and professional reputations allowed them to find highly paid and prestigious jobs abroad, but they did not leave their homeland, dedicating their lives to serving Russian science." — the authors of the appeal write. — Our colleagues have always remained committed to the interests of the country, helped our institute through the most difficult times of the 1990s, and helped preserve science in Novosibirsk by conducting research at the highest world level."

Let us recall that the chief researcher of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Anatolia Maslova and the director of the same institute Alexandra Shiplyuka were detained back in 2022. The first in the chain of detained scientists from Novosibirsk was Dmitriy KolkerHe died a few days after his arrest from a serious illness. 

Taiga clarifies that Novosibirsk scientists are now afraid to engage in research necessary to create "the aerospace technology of the future." This situation threatens "a catastrophe for domestic aerodynamics."