Can 1979 Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group Document No. 112 ('Discrimination against Jews entering the university') be located and read, to confirm it — not 'Intellectual Genocide' — is the true source of the Mekh-mat 47-vs-40 admission table?

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claim-kanevskii-senderov-1979-data-shows-mekh-mat-admission-gap-despite-jewish-applicants-olympiad-edge rests on a 47-vs-40 admission-rate table that this vault had attributed, since 2026-08-20, to Kanevskii and Senderov's samizdat report "Intellectual Genocide" (1980). Having now located and read "Intellectual Genocide" directly (see claim-intellectual-genocide-1980-report-located-as-2005-reconstructed-translation), that attribution does not hold: the document itself states no Mekh-mat table was compiled in 1980, and its group tables cover only MIFI and MFTI (see claim-mekh-mat-47-vs-40-table-not-in-intellectual-genocide-1980-origin-likely-document-112). Both A. Shen's own framing and "Intellectual Genocide's" own internal citation point instead to a 1979 document — No. 112 of the Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group, "Discrimination against Jews entering the university," signed by Elena Bonner, S. Kallistratova, I. Kovalev, M. Landa, N. Meiman, T. Osipova, and Yu. Yarym-Ageev — as the vehicle that carried "the statistical data collected by B.I. Kanevskii and V.A. Senderov." This document has not itself been located or read by this vault.

Why it matters. This is now the specific, narrower gap behind the vault's central Mekh-mat admission-gap figure. The number itself has not been contradicted by anything found this session — MFTI matched exactly, MIFI matched on 3 of 4 digits with the fourth resolved in the primary's favor — but the citation pointing at "Intellectual Genocide" as its source is now known to be wrong, and the corrected citation (Document No. 112) is itself unverified. A load-bearing quantitative claim should not rest indefinitely on an inferred attribution.

What would answer it:

1. Search for Document No. 112 itself, or a reprint/scan of it — candidate leads: the Moscow Helsinki Group's own archival holdings, Memorial's archive (Moscow), the Open Society Archives at Central European University (Budapest) — the same three archives Shifman successfully used to reconstruct "Intellectual Genocide."
2. A related, later Kanevskii/Senderov/Meiman/Freiman compilation — "Results of Admission of Graduates of Five Moscow Schools to the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow University in 1981" — is also held at the Open Society Archives per Shifman's bibliography; worth checking whether it reproduces or restates the 1979/1980 Mekh-mat figures even if Document No. 112 itself cannot be found.
3. If genuinely unrecoverable, note that explicitly — the 47-vs-40 figure would then rest permanently on Shen's secondhand transmission, which should stay flagged [unverified-quant] rather than have the flag quietly forgotten now that a different, adjacent document has been found.

Progress, 2026-08-22. Partially answered — leaving open. Document No. 112 itself was still not located or read, but three sources independent of both Shen and "Intellectual Genocide" now corroborate it from the outside: A Chronicle of Current Events No. 55 (1979) titles it specifically as concerning Jewish admission to Mekh-mat (claim-chronicle-55-document-112-title-specific-to-mekh-mat-jewish-admissions); its No. 56 corrigenda (1980) names B.I. Kanevsky and V.A. Senderov directly as authors of the six-school Mekh-mat enrolment compilation Document 112 reported on (claim-chronicle-56-corrigenda-names-kanevsky-senderov-document-112-source-authors) — the strongest single corroboration found so far, since its author had no reason to know or care about this vault's question; and a 1981 CSCE survey built from Lyudmila Alekseeva's own Moscow Helsinki Group materials independently confirms the same subject (claim-csce-1981-survey-corroborates-document-112-subject-independent-of-chronicle). None of the three reproduces Document 112's own text or shows the 47-vs-40 figures printed inside it. Item 1 above (Memorial/OSA/Bremen archives) and item 2 (Chronicle No. 53, p. 184, where the underlying "Results of the Enrolment... from Six Moscow Schools" compilation was first noted) remain the live leads to full confirmation.