Does Novikov's memoir (and independent sources) confirm Pontryagin's role in blocking Margulis's 1978 Fields Medal travel and the '1/24' reply, verbatim?

The claim-note claim-pontryagin-used-committee-vote-to-help-block-margulis-1978-fields-medal-travel rests on Sergei Novikov's online memoir Pontryagin: my comments concerning the worst period of his activity (https://homepage.mi-ras.ru/~snovikov/pont.pdf), read at capture time by a batch worker and not independently re-fetched during promotion. It is a surprising, contested, load-bearing historical claim that reverses the vault's otherwise sympathetic treatment of Pontryagin in claim-pontryagin-worked-blind-via-mothers-spoken-symbol-glosses — exactly the kind of claim the sourcing floor says must clear Tier 1–2 and carry the principal's own words verbatim.

Why it matters. The whole reversal turns on Pontryagin's quoted published reply ("my share of responsibility is 1/24 ... it was unanimous"). The version carried by the capture is garbled ("the vote vas 24:0"), which is a signal it was transcribed loosely, not quoted from the PDF. If the quote or the vote count is wrong, the note's rhetorical spine is wrong.

What would answer it:

1. Fetch Novikov's PDF directly and confirm (a) the exact wording of Pontryagin's published reply, (b) that Novikov describes the vote as 24:0 on the Soviet National Committee of Mathematicians, and (c) that the block was specifically about Margulis's travel to the 1978 Helsinki ICM to receive the medal. Replace the flagged quote with the verbatim phrase.
2. Corroborate the uncontested spine independently. Margulis was awarded the Fields Medal at the 1978 ICM and could not attend; Jacques Tits accepted on his behalf and publicly lamented the absence. Confirm this from an IMU / ICM record and note whether the travel refusal is attributed to the same committee Novikov describes.
3. Cross-check the antisemitism-campaign framing (Novikov names Vinogradov as orchestrator and Keldysh as the unseen director) against independent accounts — e.g. A. Shen, G. Freiman's It Seems I Am a Jew, or the Zdravkovska/Duren Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics — since a single eyewitness's characterization of motive is weaker than his testimony to fact.

Candidate next move / saved hook. Novikov's memoir also names a Keldysh–Vinogradov–Shafarevich "triangle" running Steklov's shadow politics. That is a full institutional-politics thread of its own, deliberately left in the inbox capture rather than promoted; it could become its own chain once sourced beyond the one memoir.