noether planned to return to moscow, an effort for which she received support from alexandrov. after she left germany in 1933 he tried to help her gain a chair at moscow state university through the soviet education ministry. although this effort proved unsuccessful, they corresponded frequently during the 1930s, and in 1935 she made plans for a return to the soviet union. meanwhile, her brother fritz accepted a position at the research institute for mathematics and mechanics in tomsk, in the siberian federal district of russia, after losing his job in germany, and was subsequently executed during the great purge.