In order to suppress intellectual opposition to Soviet power, a number of historians working in the university, including Sergey Platonov, Yevgeny Tarle and Boris Grekov, were imprisoned in the so-called Academic Affair of 1929–1930 on fabricated charges of participating in a counter-revolutionary conspiracy aimed at overthrowing the government. Some other members of the staff were repressed in 1937–1938 during the Great Purge.
Si loo xakameeyo mucaaradka caqliga si xoog Soviet, tiro ka mid ah taariikhyahanadu ka shaqeeya jaamacadda, oo ay ku jiraan Sergey Platonov, Yevgeny Tarle iyo Boris Grekov, ayaa xabsi ku affære waxa loogu yeero Waxbarashada ee 1929-1930 oo lagu eedeeyay been abuur ah oo ka qayb shirqool counter-kacaan a loogu talagalay dumin dowladda. xubnaha kale ee shaqaalaha qaarkood ayaa cadaadiyo ee 1937-1938 intii lagu safayn Weyn.