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    • “Dekulakisation”, 1930-1933
    • Deaths on the White Sea Canal, 1931-1933
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    • The Great Terror, 1937-1938
      • The Terror in Karelia
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Mikhail Rogachov, 1952-2021

5 January 202118 August 2025 / editors (JC)

Mikhail Rogachov (died 3 January 2021) A sad loss. For years the historian Mikhail ROGACHOV studied the history of the Gulag in the Komi Republic (Northwest Russia) and was compiler, author and editor of the Pokayanie Fund's Book of Remembrance, Repentance: The Komi Republic's Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression. Between 1998 and … Continue reading Mikhail Rogachov, 1952-2021

The significance of Sandarmokh

10 October 201815 August 2025 / editors (JC)

"Sandarmokh is a unique and complete investigation. It is enormously to the credit of Yury DMITRIEV that he gathered together all the documentary information and, as a result, we today know who exactly is buried here. <…>" (Irina Flige) Irina Flige In March 2017 Anna Yarovaya wrote a long article about the Dmitriev Affair for … Continue reading The significance of Sandarmokh

Forgotten or Remembered

28 September 201816 December 2020 / editors (JC)

"Recently, for one reason and another, I've visited different villages in Russia," writes Yury MIKHAILIN (an administrator of the Dmitriev Supporters' Facebook page). "In many of them there stands a memorial to soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War [1941-1944] and in almost every case it is not simply a monument. Names are carved … Continue reading Forgotten or Remembered

Over 300 supporters

20 June 201717 December 2020 / editors (JC)

On 20 June, appeals in support of Yury Dmitriev were broadcast  by writer Dmitry Bykov and musician Boris Grebenshchikov on the Echo Moskvy radio station. On its website the radio station also published a list of several hundred people who have signed a petition in support of the historian. * In Petrozavodsk City Court the … Continue reading Over 300 supporters

Press conference, 6 June 2017

7 June 201718 December 2020 / editors (JC)

Soon after DMITRIEV's first trial began there was a press conference of his supporters in Moscow. Those speaking and answering journalists' questions were: Olga Kerzina -- director of the Moscow International Film School, godmother of Dmitriev's foster daughter Natasha -- 6 minutes Anatoly Razumov -- head of "Their Names Restored", a centre at the National … Continue reading Press conference, 6 June 2017

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Students from Moscow Film School (Krasny Bor)

“Solovki transport” Memorial (Sandarmokh)

Dmitriev with daughter Katya at Sandarmokh

Protest in Petrozavodsk

City Court – Razumov and Katya in background

near Derevyannoe village, Karelia (Krasny Bor)

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Yury Dmitriev (2014)

Anatoly Razumov (left) and Yury Dmitriev (2004)

The entrance to Sandarmokh

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