Novorossiisk University, one of the largest in Southern Russia, received orders from Leningrad. It was expensive to the Soviet Government. Times were hard. Novorossiisk could have no more subsidies. It must close its doors. The faculty would proceed at once to Odessa University and swell the teaching ranks there.
The faculty of Novorossiisk University consisted of 29 professors. In a body, they took passage on a Black Sea steamer for themselves and all their families. Then there was bustling, packing, leave-taking at Novorossiisk, and, one day last week, the whole band embarked....