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aliases	category	tags	summary	born	died	location	relations	created	updated
Genady Sergeyev Genady A. Sergeyev Genady Aleksandrovich Sergeyev Gennady Sergeyev Gennady Sergeev Genadi Sergeyev Dr. Sergeyev G. A. Sergeyev G. A. Sergeev	Medicine & Psychology	Person SovietUnion Leningrad Psychoenergetics Parapsychology Psychokinesis EEG Military	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.	1927	1999	Leningrad, Soviet Union	type with start role fn employed_by Popov Higher Naval School of Radio-Electronics 1967 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 3 type with start role fn employed_by Ukhtomskii Military Institute 1965 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) 5 type with start role fn participant_in Moscow-Leningrad Telepathy Experiment 1967-03 analyzed the EEG records of Karl Nikolaev with Lyutsia Pavlova and Edward Naumov 3 type with start end role fn investigated Ninel Kulagina 1965 1970 laboratory studies in Leningrad, including frog heart preparations in 1970 and a test on a physician's heart rate 1	2025-08-05	2026-10-05

Genady Aleksandrovich Sergeyev (1927 to 1999) was a Leningrad researcher of the Soviet Union 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.¹² According to the Moscow researcher Igor Tsykunov, who relies on a 1994 interview with Sergeyev in the magazine Terminator (magazine), 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

Telepathy and EEG, 1967 to 1968

In March 1967 Sergeyev took part with the electrophysiologist Lyutsia Pavlova of the Ukhtomsky Physiological Institute of Leningrad State 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), Leningrad, 1968). In March 1967 he and Nikolaev were summoned to the Ministry of Communications of the Soviet Union, 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

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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 ↩︎