Lev Iakovlevich Karpov (

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in 1898.

Biography

Lev Karpov was born to a Jewish family.https://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/misc/JewishEncycRussia/k/index.html He was the son of a bankrupt sales clerk. He studied chemistry at the

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graduating in 1910. After moving to

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he became involved with the

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. In 1915 he was appointed director of Bondjuschski Sawod in

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(

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), the oldest chemical factory in Russia, established in 1868, which was later renamed the Chemical Plant Karpov after him. After the

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, he became the head of the department of the chemical industry of the RSFSR and founded the Central Chemical Laboratory (now Karpow-Institute for Physical Chemistry) in Moscow in 1918 and was appointed several high-ranking positions in the soviet administration such as becoming a member of the

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of the RSFSR. Lev Karpov died on January 6, 1921, in Moscow, and is buried in Mass Grave No. 6 of the

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, Moscow.

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spoke at his funeral suggesting that science would be able to restore the dead back to life:

I am certain that the time will come when science will become all- powerful, that it will be able to recreate a deceased organism. I am certain that the time will come when one will be able to use the elements of a person's life to recreate the physical person. And I am certain that when that time will come, when the liberation of mankind, using all the might of science and technology, the strength and capacity of which we cannot now imagine, will be able to resurrect great historical figures- and I am certain that when that time will come, among the great figures will be our comrade, Lev Iakovlevich.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karpov, Lev Iakovlevich 1879 births 1921 deaths Members of the Central Committee of the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis Revolutionaries of the Russian Revolution Bauman Moscow State Technical University alumni Life extensionists Soviet chemists Chemists from the Russian Empire Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Old Bolsheviks