Sozerko Artagovich Malsagov () (June 17, 1895 - February 25, 1976), was Russian Imperial Army officer known for his memoir about his escape from the

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.МАЛЬСАГОВ СОЗЕРКО АРТАГАНОВИЧ
/ref>Мальсагов Созерко Артаганович 1893 – 1976 военный
/ref> Malsagov, together with four other inmates (Матвей Сазонов, Yuri Bezsonov, Pole Эдвард Мальбродский, Василий Приблудин.) escaped from Solovki on May 18, 1925, and run into

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. Bezsonov also wrote a similar memoir.

Memoir

*''Соловки. Остров пыток и смерти (Записки бежавшего с Соловков офицера С.А. Мальсагова)'', 1925, in Russian emigre newspaper ''Сегодня'', Riga *S.A. Malsagoff. ''An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North'', London, A.M. Philpot LTD., 1926. Translated by F.H.Lyon.''An Island Hell''
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*''Адский остров. Советская тюрьма на далеком севере'', 1996, translated from English by Sh. Yandiyev (Ш. Яндиев)

References

1895 births 1976 deaths Ingush people Inmates of Solovki prison camp Soviet escapees Escapees from Soviet detention 20th-century Polish military personnel Polish September Campaign participants Gulag memoirs Soviet rehabilitations {{russia-bio-stub