Rutenburg Victor (1911–1988) – historian medievalist, historian of anti-religious free-thinking.
Kopeikin, in 1937 he took the surname of his wife S. G. Rutenburg
In 1929, he graduated from the Teachers-Training Institute in Stalino (Donetsk); he taught history in a secondary school in the settl. of Voznesensky Rudnik. In 1933, he passed the curses for young officers of the Red Army and got the rank of Reserve Sublieutenant.
In 1934, he moved to Leningrad and entered the Historical Faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Philosophy, literature and History; at the same time he worked as a school teacher of history. In May 1938, he got the excellent evaluation for his research paper ‘From the History of Italian Pawnshops in the Fifteenth Century; on a Manuscript from the Archive of the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of History of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R.’. On July 28, 1938, he was arrested in the frame of the affair of Esperantists – he was accused in espionage and spent 11 months in jail; he was released on July 5, 1939, and returned to the Faculty. In 1940, he graduated from the University and entered the post-graduate courses at the Chair of the History of the Middle Ages.
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