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Ozerlag
Ozerlag (Озерлаг) was an MVD special camp (''osoblag No. 7'', ''osoby lager No. 7'') in the Soviet GULAG labor camp system for political prisoners. It was established in 1948 near Tayshet and included a chain of camp sites (''lagernye punkty'') along the Baikal–Amur Mainline branches constructed by the inmates, up to Bratsk and later further to Ust-Kut. Notable detainees *Leo Bauer (1912–1972), German political activist and journalist *Moisei Beregovsky (1892–1961), Ukrainian Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist * (born 1949), French historian * (1890–?), Estonian military commander *Jazep Hermanovich (1890–1978), Belarusian Greek Catholic priest and poet *Oleksander Hrekov (1875–1958), Ukrainian military commander *, Lithuanian engineer, member of anti-Soviet resistance *Mikhail Kalik (1927–2017), Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter * (1902–1997), Estonian military commander * (1926–2013), Slovak political prisoner *Victor Krasin (1929–201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Ziatyk
Ivan Ziatyk (, ; December 26, 1899 May 17, 1952) was a Ukrainian Priesthood in the Catholic Church, Catholic priest, Redemptorists, Redemptorist, and lecturer, considered to be a martyr by the Catholic Church. Early life Ziatyk was born on December 26, 1899, the day after Gregorian Christmas, in the hamlet (place), hamlet of Odrekhova near Sanok in southeastern Poland. He and his older brother Mykhailo were born to Maria and Stefan Ziatyk, who were rural peasants who lived in poverty. The family were Ukrainian Greek Catholics. His father Stefan died when Ivan was 14 years old. Seminary In his late teenage years, Ziatyk decided to prepare for the Catholic priesthood. In 1919, he entered the Ukrainian Catholic seminary in Przemyśl where he studied Christian spirituality, philosophy, theology together with the history and liturgy of the Byzantine rite of Catholic Church. He was ordained to the diaconate and then priesthood in 1923. From 1925 until 1935, Ziatyk worked the seminary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Voytsekhovsky
Sergey Nikolayevich Voytsekhovsky (; ; 16 October 1883 – 7 April 1951) was a Russian military leader who was a colonel in the Imperial Russian Army, a major-general in the White Army, and a general in the Czechoslovak Army. He was a participant in the Great Siberian Ice March. Biography Early life Voytsekhovsky was born on 16 October 1883 in Vitebsk, into a noble family. He graduated from Technical High School in Velikiye Luki (1902), Constantine Artillery School. (Konstantinovskoye Artilleriiskoe Uchilishche), St. Petersburg (1904) and the Imperial Nicholas Military Academy (1912). After graduation, he served in the 2nd Artillery Brigade of the 20th Infantry. Czechoslovak Service in Russia From December 1917 he was Commanding Officer 3rd Rifle Regiment (of Jan Žižka z Trocnova) (took office in February 1918). From May 1918 he was Senior military commander of the Czechoslovak Legion in the area of Chelyabinsk and was also a member of the Military Collegium of the Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Krasin
Victor Aleksandrovich Krasin (also spelled Viktor Krasin, , 4 August 1929 – 3 September 2017) was a Russian human rights activist, economist, a former Soviet dissident and a political prisoner. At the time of his death Krasin was a US citizen. Biography In 1947 Krasin entered the Moscow University's Psychology Department of the Philosophical Faculty. In January 1949, Krasin and some friends were arrested by the KGB and sentenced to eight years in labor camps for criticizing Marxism–Leninism. Krasin was sent to the Ozerlag labor camp along the Tayshet railway. In September 1949, Krasin escaped with four others from the Taishet transit camp. They disarmed two of the guards when working in the sand carrier in the forest. They were re-captured on the third day and sentenced to 10 years for counter-revolutionary sabotage. Krasin spent the first winter working in the logging camp. In 1950 Krasin was transferred to the Kolyma region in the USSR Ear east, in the Berlag labor cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Tsikota
Archmandrite Andrei Tsikota MIC ( zh, 祁高德, , Andrej Cikota, , also Andrew Cikoto;Servant of God Archmandrite Andrew Cikoto (1891-1952) - Biography at the official website 5 December 1891, Vilno Governorate - 11 February 1952, ) was a |
Hava Volovich
Hava Vladimirovna Volovich ( :ru:Волович, Хава Владимировна;1916–2000), was a Ukrainian writer, actress, puppet theater director and Gulag survivor. In literary value and historical witness, her notes from the Soviet forced labour camps have been compared with Shalamov's stories and Anne Frank's Diary. Anne Applebaum wrote that Volovich stands out in the anthology "Gulag Voices", as she, like Elena Glinka, was not afraid to touch upon taboo subjects Volovich's story about her own child in the camp contrasts to some stereotypes about the selfishness and venality of gulag prisoners who bore children there. Biography Hava Vladimirovna (Vilkovna) Volovich was born in 1916 into a Jewish family in Mena, a small town in the Chernihiv region of northern Ukraine. In 1934 she finished a seven-year school and began work first as a typesetter and then as sub-editor with a local newspaper. Volovich was arrested on August 14, 1937, on the charge of anti-Soviet agitati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Virchenko
Nina Opanasivna Virchenko (; born May 5, 1930) is a Ukrainian mathematician, academic, author, and member of the Ukrainian resistance movement. While a student in Kyiv in 1948, she was arrested on charges of Ukrainian nationalism, and was a political prisoner in a gulag in Eastern Siberia for six years. On her return to Kyiv, she was able to return to university in 1956, going on to graduate school in 1961. She went on to study mathematics and become a professor of mathematics at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Virchenko was finally awarded her PhD in 1988, with a dissertation on integral equations. As well as mathematical studies, she has published on the history of mathematics and repressed mathematicians in Ukraine, as well as books for the general public. Early life and education Nina Virchenko was born on May 5, 1930, in Zavadivka, a village in Ukraine. Her mother was a midwife and her father was a former officer of the Ukrainian People's Army. In 1937, the family moved to Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Ulanovskaya
Maya Aleksandrovna Ulanovskaya (also known as Maiia Ulanovskie and Maria Ulanovsky) (Russian: Майя Александровна Улановская) (Hebrew: מאיה אולאנובסקאיה) (October 20, 1932 – June 25, 2020), was an American-born Russian-Israeli who, with spouse Anatoly Yakobson, participated in the dissident movement in the USSR and became a professor, writer, and translator in Israel. Background Maya Aleksandrovna Ulanovskaya was born in New York City while her Jewish parents were stationed there as Soviet resident spies and Soviet intelligence officer illegals for the GRU. Her father was Alexander Ulanovsky (1891–1971). Her mother was Nadezhda Ulanovskaya (1903–1986). In a 1952 memoir, Whittaker Chambers, who reported to the Ulanovskys in the early 1930s, noted Nadezhda's pregnancy and also noted that Ulanovskaya had an older brother, "kept hostage at school in Russia (the boy was killed fighting against the Germans during the Nazi invasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iryna Senyk
Iryna Senyk (Ukrainian, Іри́на Миха́йлівна Се́ник; June 8, 1926, Lviv - October 25, 2009, Boryslav) was a Ukrainian poet, nurse, and Soviet political dissident. She was imprisoned in Stalinist camps as were her mother and brother. She was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and an honorary member of PEN International. Biography Iryna Mykhailivna Senyk was born on June 8, 1926, in Lviv. Her parents were Mykhailo Senyk and Maria Senyk. From 1939, she was a member of the Youth of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and in 1941, she became a full member of the organization, working in the regional propaganda department. She studied at a folk school and a private girls' gymnasium before entering University of Lviv in 1944. In December 1945, while a student at the University of Lviv, she was arrested on charges of "treason against the homeland" (Article 54-1 "a") and "involvement in a counter-revolutionary organization" (Article 54–11) of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Raudsepp
Hugo Raudsepp (10 July 1883 – 15 September 1952) was an influential and prolific Estonian playwright and politician. Cody, Sprinchorn 2007, p. 428. In 1951 he was deported to the Irkutsk region by the Soviet authorities, where he died. Raun 2001, p. 186. Life Victor Paul Hugo Raudsepp was born the son of a distiller of Vaimastvere Manor. He first attended the local village and parish schools, then until 1900 the city school of Tartu. Subsequently, he worked as a clerk in a small retail businesses in Rakke Parish. After 1907, he worked as a literary critic, journalist and columnist in various newspapers. Between 1917 and 1920, he was politically active, acting as deputy mayor of Viljandi and working at the Secretariat of the Estonian Constituent Assembly. Thereafter, his political involvement waned. From 1920 to 1924 Raudsepp was a literary critic for the newspaper '' Vaba Maa''. In 1924, he contracted tuberculosis which took a year of recovery. He became a freelance writer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktoras Petkus
Viktoras Petkus (17 May 1928 – 1 May 2012) was a Lithuanian political activist and Soviet dissident. He was a founding member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group in 1976 which set out to document violations of human rights in the Soviet Union. For various anti-Soviet activities, Petkus was imprisoned three times in various prisons and Gulag camps by the Soviet authorities. Biography Soviet dissident First two imprisonments Petkus was born in near Raseiniai. As a high school student in Raseiniai, he was an active member of Ateitis, a Lithuanian Catholic youth organization. For such activities he was arrested by the Soviet authorities and sentenced to five years in a Gulag under Article 58 of the Soviet Penal Code for anti-Soviet agitation. He served the sentence in the Vladimir Central Prison and in the Komi ASSR. He attempted to escape in 1949 and the sentence was doubled to ten years. He was sent to Minlag. However, after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, he was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algirdas Petrusevičius
Algirdas Petrusevičius (born 23 February 1937 in Klaipėda) is an anti-Soviet dissident, partisan and political prisoner, a leader in the creation of Lithuania's army, an inventor of weapons for guerrilla warfare, and a member of Lithuania's parliament from 1996 to 2000. Biography From 1953 to 1956, Algirdas Petrusevičius was second-in-command in the Kaunas underground organization " Geležinis vilkas" (Iron Wolf). On Lithuania's independence day, February 16, 1956, he raised the Lithuanian flag in the Kaunas city hall square. In the subsequent gun battle, he was arrested, sentenced and imprisoned in Siberia, being held at Ozerlag near Tayshet. He twice attempted escape, was wounded and lost his arm. He returned to Lithuania in 1968. From 1990 to 1993 he led the newly independent Lithuania's Defense Department weapons arsenal "Vytis". He invented pistol-machine guns Vytis suitable for guerilla war, as well as hand grenades, and along with his colleagues, land mines. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MVD Special Camp
MVD special camps of the Gulag (, ''osobye lagerya'', osoblags) was a system of special labor camps established addressing the February 21, 1948 decree 416—159сс of the USSR Council of Ministers of February 28 decree 00219 of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs exclusively for a "special contingent" of political prisoners, convicted according to the more severe sub-articles of Article 58 (Enemies of people): treason, espionage, terrorism, etc., for various political opponents, such as Trotskyists, nationalists, and white émigrés, etc. It was forbidden to keep other types of convicts in these camps. History Initially, in February 1948, five ''osoblag''s were established, nameless, numbered from 1 to 5. Later, they were given codenames, accordingly, Mineralny Минеральный ( Minlag), Gorny Горный ( Gorlag), Dubravny Дубравный (Dubravlag), Stepnoy Степной ( Steplag) and Beregovoy Береговой ( Berlag). Russian political prisoner and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
