Surprisingly, Ivanov even received a letter from a woman in Leningrad who wanted to participate in the experiment, but then the orangutan died. Plans to start the breeding of hominid mutants in Sukhumi were set on hold.
Even more, Ivanov’s patron, Nikolai Gorbunov, was condemned during Stalin’s purges, which hastened Ivanov’s downfall. Arrested in 1930, he was sentenced to five-year exile in Kazakhstan, from which he never returned.
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