The only one of its kind in Russia, the museum in Palochka village in the north of the Tomsk Region opened this August. It is devoted to the memory of over 7,000 forced settlers from southern Siberia who died there in 1931-1933. Partly funded with grants from the presidential administration, it faced fears of closure … Continue reading Unique Tomsk Region Museum safe for this winter at least
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Timeline (2), 2018-2021
2018 14 June -- DMITRIEV's acquittal on charges of child pornography (Article 242.3) and perverted acts with a minor (135) overturned by Supreme Court of Karelia. Football World Cup opens in Russia. Sergei Koltyrn (1953-2020) 28 June -- DMITRIEV re-arrested and again held in Detention Centre 1 in Petrozavodsk. Further charges brought against DMITRIEV under … Continue reading Timeline (2), 2018-2021
The unquiet dead
Scattered across the length and breadth of Russia and its immediate neighbours (especially Kazakhstan), are hundreds of neglected or concealed burial grounds. Some 1,800 are currently known; others await commemoration or discovery. Belbaltlag prisoners’ cemetery, discovered by Yury Dmitriev in August 2003 See More ...
Timeline (1), 1997-2008
In early July 1997, DMITRIEV together with Irina Flige and the late Veniamin Joffe discovered a huge killing field of the Great Terror near Medvezhegorsk in Karelia. Subsequently it became known as Sandarmokh. Weeks later, in early September, he and Sergei Chugunkov identify the Krasny Bor killing field and burial ground not far from Petrozavodsk, … Continue reading Timeline (1), 1997-2008
Restoring the Names (2)
Since the late 1980s volunteers all over Russia and other former Soviet republics have compiled lists naming the men and women arrested, imprisoned and shot during Stalin’s time, and published regional Books of Remembrance about them. Working with Ivan Chukhin, Yury DMITRIEV compiled such a volume for Karelia. Published in 2002, it contains over 14,000 … Continue reading Restoring the Names (2)
The Dmitriev Affair 