Photographs
From the notebook chart (p. 004).
Family portrait; date not yet established.
“Sasha returned. Summer 1954.”
By the Moskva River, summer 1954.
After Sasha’s return — family frame, 1954.
Kosino, 1954. Mitya and Sasha.
Portrait confirmed by the family (2026-08-02). Wife: Tatyana Timofeevna . Album continued .
Aleksandr Dmitrievich Krivoshein (1926–1988) is the husband of Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina , a design engineer. In the notebook, photo captions and family speech he is almost always Sasha.
Site canon: Sasha = Aleksandr Dmitrievich Krivoshein, her husband. The full name comes from the genealogy chart and aligned person pages.
Below is a continuous biography drawn from Tatyana’s manuscript, his father’s autobiography, and open archival/reference publications. Hypotheses and source conflicts are stated openly; there is no literary invention.
Origins and family
| Years | 1926–1988 (chart , p. 004) |
| Birthplace | Kirsanov, Tambov region (chart) |
| Father | Dmitry Aleksandrovich Krivoshein (1905–1979) |
| Mother | Nina Vasilievna Krivosheina (née Petrova) (1907–1991) |
| Wife | Tatyana Timofeevna Krivosheina (1926–2021), née Samsonova |
| Burial | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow (Krivoshein chart) |
Children and grandchildren: genealogy charts ; for the living, only birth year and relationship.
Meeting, marriage, start of family life
Tatyana’s account of meeting Sasha and starting a family is in:
- Youth and meeting Sasha (pp. 134–139)
- Crimea, Sevastopol, and the start of family life (pp. 140–144)
- Family and children
Exact wedding dates and every stage of the courtship are not restated here beyond what those chapters already publish.
Engineering work: “Stalproekt” and “Elektroproektstal”
According to Tatyana Timofeevna (study and work chapter ), by the time of her state exams Sasha was already working at Stalproekt; she was kept in Moscow because Sasha worked in Moscow.
In his father’s autobiography (House on the Embankment museum site), Aleksandr is an engineer-designer at an organisation written as “Elektroproektstal”.
The published UMGB Moscow Region review list (1956) lists him as an engineer-designer and Komsomol member (within a group; see below).
Arrest of 2 September 1949
According to Tatyana Timofeevna (chapter 18 ):
- On the night of 2 September 1949 Sasha was arrested.
- “What and how, why?” the family could not understand at the time.
- Tatyana telephoned Dmitry Aleksandrovich in Blagoveshchensk; Sasha’s parents came to Moscow.
- Every Wednesday she went to the Lubyanka information bureau; she was told an investigation was under way; later she was allowed to pass on warm clothing and money.
- D. A. was removed as chair of the Amur regional executive committee, put in the Central Committee reserve, and given a strict party reprimand “for his son.”
- In November or early December she was told the sentence: Article 58, ten years. D. A. and Nina Vasilievna went back to the bureau to re-check.
- After investigation Aleksandr was moved to Butyrka prison; Tatyana and N. V. brought parcels.
- Then Vorkuta; the first letter came from there.
- Because of her husband’s arrest she could not take the intended job (Censorship); she was out of work for about a year; later she taught at School No. 50 in Lyublino until Sasha’s return.
According to Dmitry Aleksandrovich’s autobiography (House on the Embankment museum):
- April 1946 – June 1949 — chair of the Crimean regional executive committee.
- June 1949 — appointed chair of the Amur regional executive committee.
- August 1949 — most of the Crimean party bureau repressed.
- 2 September 1949 — son Aleksandr arrested; the father records conviction under Art. 111, ten years.
- The father was relieved of leading work; until March 1950 he was in the Central Committee reserve.
- Son: born 1926, married, design engineer; in 1954 — full rehabilitation and reinstatement at work.
Which article was in the case
Family sources preserve two formulations:
| Source | Wording |
|---|---|
| Tatyana Timofeevna (manuscript) | Art. 58 RSFSR Criminal Code, 10 years |
| Dmitry Aleksandrovich (autobiography) | Art. 111 RSFSR Criminal Code, 10 years |
| UMGB Moscow Region review list (1956) | no article number in the group line |
Historical Art. 111 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (1920s–50s editions) concerned dereliction / negligent performance of duty, not the modern “occupational safety” offence. Known sanctions under Art. 111 were far shorter than ten years, so the combination “Art. 111 + ten years” needs archival checking (memory error, combined charges, other qualification — not published as fact).
Until a copy of the investigative file is obtained, the site does not treat either 58 or 111 as the sole established article.
Cause of arrest and the father’s career
The timeline is close: father’s transfer from Crimea to Amur (June 1949) → repression of Crimean leadership (August) → son’s arrest (2 September) → father’s removal and party penalty.
But the formula “arrested because of the father’s high position” / “hostage” / “pressure on the nomenklatura” is not proven. Permissible wording: the arrest took place against the background of the Crimean leadership purge and soon brought severe consequences for the father’s career; whether the son was arrested as a means of pressure can be settled only from the case file.
Archival list (1956)
In the A. N. Yakovlev Foundation publication (list of UMGB cases for Moscow Region, December 1956; RGASPI. F. 589. Op. 3. D. 7930…), Aleksandr Dmitrievich Krivoshein appears in a group with other engineers (including Polyakov, Govorov, Bykov, Kuznetsov): design engineer, Komsomol member; the group was arrested between 1 April and 2 September 1949; group sentences — 8 to 10 years corrective-labour camp. The document concerns cases reviewed and discontinued for lack of corpus delicti.
The table layout does not securely yield a personal rehabilitation date, article number, or individual term for each person. The list is not used as proof of Art. 58 or 111 specifically.
Camps, work in detention, return
According to Tatyana:
- Vorkuta, then the Semipalatinsk area (“they were building something there”; he was already chief engineer of a concrete plant).
- June 1954 — Sasha returned.
- The manuscript sentence after the offer to “bring his…” is broken off — the site does not complete it by guesswork.
According to the father: 1954 — full rehabilitation and reinstatement at work (no calendar day of an order is published without a document).
Family photographs of summer 1954 (“Sasha returned,” Petrovsky forest, Kosino) are in the album and above.
After 1954
Open family and museum sources record reinstatement at work after rehabilitation. A year-by-year ladder from “engineer” to “department head” after 1954 is not laid out in Tatyana’s notebook. The title department head of the institute for design of steelmaking and rolling equipment (“Stalproekt”) appears in the published 1989 laureate list (below) and matches the family’s memory of Stalproekt work.
USSR State Prize, 1989
Decree of the CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers of 30 October 1989, No. 931, on USSR State Prizes in science and technology for 1989 (published in the Collected Decrees of the USSR Government; bibliographic lists for 1989).
In the laureate list (including MegaBook / 1989 compilations) appears:
Krivoshein, Aleksandr Dmitrievich — head of department of the State Union Institute for the Design of Steelmaking and Rolling Equipment for Ferrous Metallurgy (the institute commonly known as Stalproekt),
in a collective award for reconstruction of reheating furnaces of rolling mills, improving efficiency and rolled-product quality.
Why this is the same person (public case):
- full name;
- engineering / metallurgical design;
- Tatyana’s manuscript: “Stalproekt”;
- father’s autobiography: design engineer (with a distorted organisation name);
- death in 1988 and prize in 1989 fit the rule on posthumous awards (Statute on USSR State Prizes, CPSU CC and USSR CM decree 21 March 1989, No. 251 — posthumous award with diploma, badge and money to the family is allowed);
- family confirmation (Aleksei Krivoshein, 2 August 2026): the award was presented to the family in the Kremlin (ceremony place = family memory until an official protocol is found).
We do not write that Aleksandr personally attended the ceremony.
Confirmed anchors
| Fact | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | chart p. 004; about Tatyana; D. A. | high |
| Notebook name Sasha (husband) | ch. 16–19; photos | high |
| 1926–1988; b. Kirsanov | chart; father | high |
| Son of D. A. and N. V. | chart; Crimea | high |
| Husband of T. T. | chart; manuscript | high |
| Worked at “Stalproekt” (Tatyana’s words) | ch. 18 | high as testimony |
| Design engineer; “Elektroproektstal” (father’s words) | D. A. autobiography | high as father’s testimony |
| Arrest 2 Sept 1949 | manuscript; D. A. autobiography | high |
| 10 years; Art. 58 (Tatyana) / Art. 111 (father) | manuscript; autobiography | conflict |
| Butyrka, Vorkuta, Semipalatinsk, concrete plant | Tatyana’s manuscript | high as testimony |
| Return June 1954 | manuscript | high as testimony |
| Rehabilitation 1954; reinstated | D. A. autobiography | high as father’s testimony |
| USSR State Prize 1989; Stalproekt dept. head; furnaces | 1989 laureate list | high (see caveat) |
| Family presentation in the Kremlin | family confirmation 2026-08-02 | family testimony |
Sources
- T. T. Krivosheina’s notebook — chapters 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ; charts .
- D. A. Krivoshein autobiography — House on the Embankment museum.
- UMGB Moscow Region reviewed-cases list — A. N. Yakovlev Foundation (use archive/mirror if the origin is down).
- USSR State Prize laureates 1989 (science and technology) — compilations/MegaBook; decree No. 931 of 30 Oct 1989.
- Statute on USSR State Prizes — CPSU CC and USSR CM decree No. 251 of 21 Mar 1989.
- Family confirmations 2026-08-02 (portrait; Kremlin family presentation of the prize).
- Internal research note:
docs/ALEKSANDR_KRIVOSHEIN_BIOGRAPHY_RESEARCH_2026-08-02.md.
See also: People · About Tatyana Timofeevna · Dmitry Aleksandrovich · Nina Vasilievna · Father and mother / husband’s line