 Figatner's commission originally included Sergey Oldenburg, but he was sacked for "obstructing the reconstruction of the Academy of Sciences".By the end of 1929, 128 members of staff out of 960 were fired, with a further 520 supernumeraries from 830 also dismissed.In the following year over 100 people (mainly scholars and humanists, including many historians) were charged in what is called the Academicians' Case.