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.
as Gleb Nershin
as Nikolaj Schtschagow
as Wladimir Tschelnow
as Stalin
as 'Ruska' Rostislav
as Pyotr Makaraguine