Round table dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Khabarovsk Process

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On December 12, 2024 in the conference hall of the Grodekovsky Museum a round table dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Khabarovsk process was held.

The trial took place from December 25 to December 30, 1949, of Japanese war criminals who were accused of conducting human trials and preparing bacteriological weapons against the USSR. Japanese military commanders were supposed to spread plague, cholera, anthrax and typhus against Red Army units. In Khabarovsk for the first time the facts of medical experiments on people and preparation of bacteriological weapons by Japan in 1930-1940s were publicized.

The round table considered a wide range of problems of the Khabarovsk trial, which included historical, legal and medical and biological aspects of the outcome and significance of the trial. Irina Borisovna Ivanova, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Chief Scientific Officer of the Nature Research Department of the Grodekovo Museum reviewed the activities of Unit 731. About the problem of rehabilitation of Japanese war criminals told Slivko Stanislav Vadimovich, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor of the Higher School of Pedagogy and History of the Pacific State University. On the reflection of the Khabarovsk process in the work of artist V.V. Pavchinsky reported Shestakov. Shestakov Alexei Vyacheslavovich Shestakov, senior researcher of the research department of history of the Grodekovsky Museum, reported on the reflection of the Khabarovsk process in the work of artist V.V. Pavchinsky.