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Chronicle of Current Events No. 55 (1979) lists Moscow Helsinki Group Document No. 112 with a title specific to Jewish admission at Mekh-mat, independently of Shen's 1994 paraphrase

A Chronicle of Current Events — the samizdat periodical that assigned Moscow Helsinki Group documents their sequence numbers — carries, in its issue No. 55 (dateline 31 December 1979), a regular "Documents of the Moscow Helsinki Group" digest at p. 69. That digest lists six entries (Nos. 112, 113, 114, 115, 116 and 116a), with Document No. 112 as the first; Nos. 113–116a carry datelines of 10–13 December 1979, while the Document 112 entry carries no date. Its entry reads, verbatim: "No. 112: 'On the acceptance of Jewish students into the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University' (see Chronicles 51, 53, 54)." The title independently establishes that Document No. 112 concerned admission to Mekh-mat specifically, not "the university" in the more general terms of A. Shen's 1994 paraphrase of the same document ("Discrimination against Jews entering the university"). This is the first source read by this vault that names Document 112's subject without going through Shen.

The finding strengthens, without confirming, the attribution recorded in claim-mekh-mat-47-vs-40-table-not-in-intellectual-genocide-1980-origin-likely-document-112: it corroborates that a 1979 Moscow Helsinki Group document specifically about Mekh-mat Jewish admissions existed and was numbered 112, independently of both Shen (1994) and "Intellectual Genocide" (1980). It does not itself confirm that the vault's 47-vs-40 admission table appears inside that document — see claim-chronicle-56-corrigenda-names-kanevsky-senderov-document-112-source-authors for the closer link, and question-locate-1979-moscow-helsinki-group-document-112 for what remains open.

source: "A Chronicle of Current Events," Numbers 55-6, "Documents of the Moscow Helsinki Group," Chronicle No. 55 (31 December 1979), p. 69. https://chronicle-of-current-events.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nos-55-56-english.pdf (sha256 8d43345005673860357e898552e61e9950380a18606b68899e7f05f6c33938e1).