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---
aliases:
- Genady Sergeyev
category: "Skeptics & Critics"
category: "Medicine & Psychology"
tags:
- Person
- Skeptic
summary: "Genady Sergeyev was a Soviet military doctor who oversaw experiments with the renowned psychic Ninel Kulagina."
- SovietUnion
- Leningrad
- Psychoenergetics
- Parapsychology
- Psychokinesis
- EEG
- Military
alias:
- Genady Sergeyev
- Genady A. Sergeyev
- Genady Aleksandrovich Sergeyev
- Gennady Sergeyev
- Gennady Sergeev
- Genadi Sergeyev
- Dr. Sergeyev
- G. A. Sergeyev
- G. A. Sergeev
summary: "Leningrad mathematician and biophysicist (1927 to 1999) attached to Soviet naval research, who analyzed telepathy trials by EEG in 1967 and conducted the laboratory studies of Ninel Kulagina, including the frog heart experiments."
born: 1927
died: 1999
location: "Leningrad, Soviet Union"
relations:
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Popov Higher Naval School of Radio-Electronics]]"
start: 1967
role: "working there in March 1967 and, according to Igor Tsykunov, a member of a group created on the order of Admiral Sergei Gorshkov to design communication with submerged submarines"
fn: 3
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Ukhtomskii Military Institute]]"
start: 1965
role: "the 'A. A. Uktomskii Military Institute' of Leningrad in DIA reports of 1972 and 1975 (rendered 'Ukhtomskii Physiological Institute' and, for Pavlova's laboratory, as affiliated with Leningrad University)"
fn: 5
- type: participant_in
with: "[[Moscow-Leningrad Telepathy Experiment]]"
start: 1967-03
role: "analyzed the EEG records of Karl Nikolaev with Lyutsia Pavlova and Edward Naumov"
fn: 3
- type: investigated
with: "[[Ninel Kulagina]]"
start: 1965
end: 1970
role: "laboratory studies in Leningrad, including frog heart preparations in 1970 and a test on a physician's heart rate"
fn: 1
created: 2025-08-05
updated: 2026-10-05
---
Genady Sergeyev was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] military doctor who oversaw experiments with the renowned psychic [[Ninel Kulagina]]. He is prominently featured in a classified film from March 10, 1970, at the [[Ukhtomskii Military Institute]] in [[Leningrad]], which depicted Kulagina allegedly stopping a frog's heart with her mind[^1].
During the experiment, Sergeyev monitored Kulagina's physiological responses, which included a heart rate of 240 and elevated blood pressure, as she concentrated on stopping the frog's heart. According to declassified documents, the heart activity ceased after approximately 7 minutes in the first experiment and 22 minutes in a second. She was also reportedly able to "reactivate" the heart[^1].
Genady Aleksandrovich Sergeyev (1927 to 1999) was a Leningrad researcher of the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] naval and military research network, described by the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] in July 1972 as "a prominent mathematician for the Soviet military" who worked at the "A. A. Uktomskii Military Institute" in [[Leningrad]], and by [[Annie Jacobsen]] as a Soviet military doctor.[^1][^2] According to the Moscow researcher [[Igor Tsykunov]], who relies on a 1994 interview with Sergeyev in the magazine [[Terminator (magazine)|Terminator]], in March 1967 he was working at the [[Popov Higher Naval School of Radio-Electronics]] in Leningrad, and was a member of a research group created on the order of the navy's commander in chief, Admiral [[Sergei Gorshkov]], to develop systems for reliable communication with submerged submarines.[^3] [[Sheila Ostrander]] and [[Lynn Schroeder]] called him a mathematician of the "A. A. Uktomskii Laboratory run by the Soviet military."[^4]
Sergeyev also oversaw an experiment where Kulagina attempted to increase the heart rate of a skeptical physician, which reportedly reached dangerous levels. While some U.S. analysts suspected these demonstrations were part of a Soviet disinformation campaign, others in the U.S. military, particularly the Medical Intelligence Office of the [[U.S. Army]], considered the potential military applications of such abilities to be highly significant[^1].
### Telepathy and EEG, 1967 to 1968
A DIA briefing on "Soviet Activities in Psychoenergetics," given to the Air Force in July 1987, dated Sergeyev's work to 1965-1970 in "Vasil'yev's lab," under the headings "communication (EEG code)," "remote action" and "N. Kulagina."[^2]
In March 1967 Sergeyev took part with the electrophysiologist [[Lyutsia Pavlova]] of the [[Ukhtomsky Physiological Institute]] of [[Leningrad State University|Leningrad University]] and [[Edward Naumov]] in the second Moscow-Leningrad telepathy experiment with the actor [[Karl Nikolaev]], in Leningrad, and the physicist [[Yuri Kamensky]] as sender in Moscow. Nikolaev's respiration, heartbeat, eye movements, muscle activity and brain waves were recorded in a soundproof room, and the EEG changed sharply three seconds after Kamensky began transmitting. Sergeyev recalled in 1994 that the investigators were placed in shielded chambers and that during transmissions of fear their cardiograms synchronized, with correlations of 90 percent and in one experiment 100 percent. Afterward he developed mathematical and statistical methods of analyzing EEG for telepathic effects, published with Pavlova and [[A. F. Romanenko]] as *Statisticheskie metody issledovaniya elektroentsefalogrammy cheloveka* ([[Nauka (publisher)|Nauka]], Leningrad, 1968). In March 1967 he and Nikolaev were summoned to the [[Ministry of Communications of the Soviet Union|Ministry of Communications]], where he reported on the method.[^3] The 1972 DIA report credited him with "important mathematical and statistical methods for analyzing the EEG" and stated that work he reported in 1967 and 1968 was "just now beginning to appear in the US efforts to understand the transmission of telepathy."[^2] The 1975 study named a "Naumov-Sergeyev-Pavlova team" that found EEG records changed dramatically when a telepathic impulse carried an emotional message, with negative emotions producing slow delta and theta waves.[^5] A DIA study of 1978 said he claimed synchronized EEG patterns between sender and receiver when the sender watched flashing lights, and a coded word sent from Moscow to Leningrad with 15-second and 45-second light durations as Morse dots and dashes, and that he appears to have worked with the same people as [[I. M. Kogan]].[^6]
The Czech researcher [[Peter Rezek]] stated in 1973 that he questioned Sergeyev's approach of using EEG and wave measurements to find the carrier of transfer, and judged it aimed primarily at application of the phenomena rather than their understanding.[^5]
### Kulagina
Sergeyev studied [[Ninel Kulagina]] from the mid-1960s. A DIA briefing for the U.S. Air Force in 1987 dated his work to 1965 to 1970 in "Vasil'yev's lab" under "communication (EEG code)," "remote action" and "N. Kulagina."[^7] The 1972 report stated that he had "conducted several years of intensive lab research" on her, registered "heightened biological luminescence radiating from Kulagina's eyes," and held that the "bio-plasma" of the body must interact with the environment to produce psychokinesis; it added that since February 1971 Western scientists had been unable to visit or observe her and that "a veil of secrecy has been placed on Sergeyev and Mrs. Kulagina for unknown reasons."[^2] Ostrander and Schroeder wrote that at a Moscow conference in 1968 he announced that his studies of her revealed startling discoveries about the human organism.[^4]
The 1975 study listed him with the physicist [[Viktor Adamenko]] of Moscow and [[Viktor Inyushin]] of Alma-Ata as the leading Soviet theoreticians of psychokinesis, with a theory of a "bioplasmic" energy producing movement by interaction between an object's electrostatic charge and the operator's field. It stated that he developed instruments measuring the bioplasmic field at up to 3 meters, that he recorded fields of 10,000 volts per centimeter near a target object with no field between subject and object, that he regarded psychokinesis as a polarization of the bioplasma "in a laser-like fashion" he called a "biolaser effect," that the Soviet military was reported to have classified the construction of the detectors, and that he found the energy around Kulagina's body to be half that of a non-psychic person.[^5]
The frog heart experiments are recorded in three versions. The 1975 study said that in 1970 a preparation stopped five minutes after the start of the first trial and a second after 23 minutes.[^5] The 1978 DIA study said that Sergeyev stated such hearts normally continue for 1.5 to 2 hours, that the electrocardiogram showed activity ceasing about 7 minutes after Kulagina began concentrating, the heart being in a ceramic container, and after 22 minutes with the heart in a metal container, at 1.5 meters; that he measured weak electric and magnetic fields at the heart correlating with her physiology; and that in a further trial she tried to raise the heart rate of a skeptical physician, abrupt changes appearing in both within a minute and the experiment ending after five minutes when he judged the physician's heart activity dangerous.[^6] Jacobsen writes that a classified film of March 10, 1970 at the Ukhtomskii Military Institute shows him overseeing the experiment, with Kulagina's heart rate at 240 and blood pressure raised, and that the film alarmed American defense analysts, some of whom suspected a Soviet disinformation effort while the Medical Intelligence Office of the [[U.S. Army]] judged the potential military applications extremely important.[^1]
### Healers and later work
The 1978 DIA study stated that he was "actively doing research on 'healers,'" using instruments to study electromagnetic influences during healing, that he reported differences in the emission spectra of normal and diseased tissues which a healer could restore to the original, and that a healer could influence the emission spectrum of ordinary water, while noting that his reports lacked a control experiment and did not define the spectral band. It called him "a well-respected researcher" active in paraphysics since the early 1960s and stated that his research "could have considerable impact on theoretical, as well as practical, aspects of these types of energetic processes."[^6]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
[^2]: Henry E. Shinol, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Studies and Analyses, Headquarters USAF, to the Defense Intelligence Agency, "Soviet Parapsychology Research Briefing," June 12, 1987, and cover note of July 14, 1987, with paper briefing slides "Soviet Activities in Psychoenergetics," CIA-RDP96-00789R002600320001-8 to -004-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
[^1]: Annie Jacobsen, *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis* (Little, Brown and Company, 2017).
[^2]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR (U)," ST-CS-01-169-72, July 1972, paras. 9-11, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300010001-7. https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP96-00788R001300010001-7
[^3]: I. V. Tsykunov, "Telepaticheskaya odisseya Karla Nikolaeva," *Aliter* (2022), citing the interview "Uchenyy, operedivshiy vremya na stoletie," *Terminator* 1994, nos. 2-3, and Sergeyev, Pavlova and Romanenko (1968); and I. V. Tsykunov, "Ot fantazii k realnosti: kak istoriya Nautilusa otkryla gonku sverkhestestvennykh vooruzheniy mezhdu SSSR i SShA," *Aliter* (2023). https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/telepaticheskaya-odisseya-karla-nikolaeva
[^4]: Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, *Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain* (Prentice-Hall, 1970), chapters 3 and "Political Smoke Screens and Parapsychology," read in the archive.org copy of the 1984 printing. https://archive.org/details/shelia-ostrander-psychic-discoveries-behind-the-iron-curtain-1984
[^5]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research (U)," DST-1810S-387-75, September 1975, prepared by U.S. Army Medical Intelligence and Information Agency, Parts I-III and appendix, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500420001-2. https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00787r000500420001-2
[^6]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact (U)," DST-1810S-202-78, March 30, 1978 (prepared by the Foreign Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command; information cutoff October 1, 1977). https://archive.org/details/ParaphysicsRDWarsawPact_201609
[^7]: Henry E. Shinol, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Studies and Analyses, Headquarters USAF, to the Defense Intelligence Agency, "Soviet Parapsychology Research Briefing," June 12, 1987, and cover note of July 14, 1987, with paper briefing slides "Soviet Activities in Psychoenergetics," CIA-RDP96-00789R002600320001-8 to -004-5. https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP96-00789R002600320004-5