Biography of Berg Orenburg

Date of liberation: May 28, rehabilitation date: October 5, rehabilitating body: prosecutor's office of the Orenburg region. Father died when Axel was 6 years old. After the death of her father, the family moved to Petersburg. Before entering the Alexander Cadet Corps, A. Berg studied in Petrishul from a year. In the year he was enrolled in the Alexander Cadet Corps, but two years later he moved to the Sea Cadet Corps, which he finished in the year.

The Navy service during the First World War A. Berg served the younger navigator at the Cesarevich battleship.

Since July, he has been a navigator and a communications officer on the English submarine "E-8", acting together with the Russian fleet on the Baltic Sea. In the year he participated in the famous "ice campaign" of the Baltic Fleet from Helsingfors Helsinki to Kronstadt. In A. Berg, the navigator of the Panther submarine, which on August 31 by two torpedoes near the island of Seskar, sank the English destroyer Victoria.

This was the first victory of the underwater forces of Russia. Subsequently, A. Berg commanded the submarines “Lynx” and “Wolf”. Since October A. Berg - commander of the Snake submarine, which was in the repair. In three months he prepared her for access to combat operations. For selfless work to restore the submarine, A. Berg in the year was awarded the title “Hero of Labor of a separate division of the Baltic Flood submarines”.

He participated in the development of the "Rules of Service on Underwater Courts." He combined the service in the Navy with study at the 1st Petrograd Polytechnic Institute, then at the Electrotechnical Department of the Naval Academy, which he graduated with honors of the year. Preparing the submarine “Snake” for sailing, as a result of a violation of safety precautions, Axel Ivanovich lost his finger.

He spent the raid at the post, and only when the boat returned to the base, he turned to the doctors. The incident seriously weakened the health of the sailor, and there was no question of serving on a submarine. After graduating from the Academy, A. Berg taught at the Naval Engineering School. As a teacher, VMIU created a radio laboratory at the school and was engaged in scientific research in the field of radio.

In the year, the laboratory was transformed into a research institute, the head of which was appointed A. in conclusion under investigation until May 9. He was rehabilitated and restored in a military rank. In the year, A. Berg was awarded the military title of Contreral Engineer at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War A. Berg lived in evacuation in the city of Samarkand, where the Naval Academy was evacuated, and where he was a professor.

During the war, he persistently promoted the idea of ​​the need to create and use radar, headed the program to create Soviet radars. From July to October, A. Berg - Deputy People's Commissar of the Electric Management. At the same time, years - deputy. Berg was the initiator of the foundation of July and the first director of the Central Research of the Radio-Technical Institute of Tsnitri.

Vice-Admiral from September 25. He was one of the creators, and later the editor of the extensive popular science book series “Mass Radio Biblio”, published from the year. From September to November - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. Berg became his first director, holding this post up to a year. Admiral engineer since August 8. In May, at a personal request, in connection with a bilateral heart attack, he was dismissed from the post of Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR.

He headed coordination of studies in cybernetics. He made a significant contribution to the formation of bio -ics, technical cybernetics, structural linguistics, and artificial intelligence. He died on July 9. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Family Berg, Elizaveta Kamillovna. Bertoldi; - - Mother, studied in Petrishul from for a year; Betling, Eleanor Rudolfovna - - the first wife of A.

Berg, daughter of the doctor Rudolf Richardovich Betling. She studied in Petrishul from for a year; Berg, Marianna Ivanovna is nee. Penzina, - the second wife of A. Proceedings and publications of cathode lamps. Popov and the invention of radio.