By the end of World War II during the Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim (a secret operation, which was part of the Soviet WWII reparations), on October 22 1946 he was shipped to the Soviet Union where he worked until 1953 at a secret facility codenamed NII-88 (NII stands in Russian for research&development institute) at its branch located on the Gorodomlya Island on Lake Seliger in Tver Oblast.Anatoly Zak, "German A-4 team in Moscow" (retrieved October 13, 2022)
