  This is the history of translating Cantor's works into Russian from 1892 to
1985 in Odessa, Moscow, Tomsk, Kazan, S.-Petersburg, Leningrad. Mathematicians
and philosophers in Russia took the ideas of the theory of sets
enthusiastically. Such renowned scholars and scientists as Timchenko,
Shatunovsky, Vasiliev, Florensky, Mlodzeevsky, Nekrasov, Zhegalkin, Yushkevich
Sr., Fet, Yushkevich Jr., Kolmogorov, and Medvedev took part in their
popularisation. In 1970 Academician Pontryagin rated the theory of sets as
useless for young mathematicians, and the translated works of Cantor were not
published. This article first describes the tragic fate of this translation.
