He studied at the Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, where his main teacher was Peter Berngardovich Struve.
For the newspaper Nash Vek, he wrote a critical article on Lenin’s economic thinking.
After the Nazi rise to power, the “Normano Case” led to foreign political conflict.
The German Foreign Office demanded his extradition, but the US government was pressured by the Jewish Community.
In the literature of the Stalin era, he was only briefly mentioned in a systemic ideological classification.