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Resume ofIrving Aronov260 Marshall CourtLong Branch, New JerseyTelephone: (201)-222-3592Born December 4, 1917, Brooklyn, N. Y. Bachelor of Science, 1941Married, 3 children Moscow Automobile & Highway InstituteI was born December 4, 1917 in Brooklyn, N. Y. My father, Philip Aron was successively a farmer, a shoemaker, a butcher and worked in a Jewish cooperative organization. In 1931, at the age of 13, I left for Russia with my parents. My father in Russia worked as an agronomist in Biro-Bidjan. I attended school in Khabarovsk. In January, 1933, our family returned to the U. S. A. due to the illness of my younger brother. In September, 1933 we returned to Russia. My father then worked in construction as a manager, and later worked in a shoe factory as a shoemaker. My mother worked as a manager in a public dining room. I graduated high school in Moscow in 1936 and was accepted as a student in the Moscow Automobile & Highway Institute. In 1937 my parents and brother returned to the U. S. A. I remained in Moscow as I wished to finish my courses in college. I graduated in 1941, after the beginning of war with Germany and was sent as a superintendent to a Highway Bat. In September, 1942 I was sent to Military School in Moscow. After finishing as a Jr. Lt. I was in active duty as a platoon officer. I was wounded Oct. 11, 1943. I was operated upon three times, the last time in April, 1945. After being discharged from the Soviet Army due to combat disability I got a job as a senior librarian in the Technical Library of the Moscow City Soviet. In 1949 due to the small number of publications being received from abroad my position in the library was eliminated. I then got a job as a laboratory assistant in a concrete plant and after a reduction of forces I got a job as a senior engineer in the Bauman Boro Road Repair Dept. At this time I was divorced and re-married. My first wife was a bookkeeper. Her step father was a major in the Soviet Army. He was later killed, in 1942, during WW II. Her maiden name, by her stepfather was Shchegolyeva. My second wife (maiden name - Volsova) was a pathologist. She hid the fact that she could not have children and we were divorced one month after my marriage. In 1952 I met Rose Markina. We were officially married only a few months before our son was born. The cause of this delay in our marriage was the fact that I was born in the United States. Her brother is an aviation engineer and her brother-in-law works in the field of electronics. Her mother considered that our marriage would harm my wife's relatives. In 1955, after the birth of our son we began handing in applications for an exit visa from the Soviet Government. At first we tried to get out as visitors to my parents. We received our first refusal at the time of the Ungarian Revolt. Up till 1957, when my father came to visit us we continued to hand in applications for an exit visa as visitors. After 1957 we continued to hand in applications approximately every six months to leave the Soviet Union permanently. And we continued to regularly hear refusals. I consider that the aggravations connected with these refusals contributed to the causes of my wife's death in March, 1961. And only in July, 1962 my son and I received exit visas. As I mentioned in Form 444 I filled in two different applications. The first answer to the applications I filled out in the U. S. Embassy in Moscow: as an immigrant and as a native-born citizen was a Nonquota immigrant visa. The Board of Appeals of the Dept. of State, after my arrival, restored my native-born citizenship.In 1955, due to a reduction of forces I lost my staff job in the Bauman Road Repair Dept. At this time I was working as a free-lance translator in the U.S.S.R. Chamber of Commerce and as a part-time translator in Hydrenergo project. Until January of 1956 I worked for these organizations. In 1956 I began working as the Head of the Translators Dept. of the Scientific-Research Institute of Construction and Road-Building Machinery. After having finished the translation of all manuals in this field I continued working until I left the Soviet Union as a free-lance translator and editor for the Chamber of Commerce, the Foreign Trade Publishing House, the Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hydrenergo project and other organizations requiring translators.After returning to the U. S. A. I got a job as a civil engineer. At first I worked for Stelling, Lord-Wood and Van Suetondal from Nov., 1962 to Dec., 1962 and then from January, 1963 to July, 1964 I worked for Blauvelt Engineering Co. At present I am working for Harold J. Seldin, 60 Broad St., Red Bank, New Jersey. During the last several months I have been working on a free-lance basis with A EREACI Corporation (1634 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.) as an abstractor.