The Dmitriev Affair

The Life's Work and Trials of Yury Dmitriev

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    • My Path to Golgotha
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  • Remembrance
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    • Sandarmokh
      • Who wants to rewrite Sandarmokh?
      • The Search for Sandarmokh (Flige)
    • Krasny Bor
    • “Restoring the Names”
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    • The First Trial, 2017-2018
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      • What We’ve Uncovered
      • What We’ve Uncovered (pt 2)
      • Natasha Held Firm
      • Last Words
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  • Background
    • The Unquiet Dead
    • Dekulakisation, 1930-1933
    • Deaths on the White Sea Canal, 1931-1933
    • Famine, 1931-1933
    • The Great Terror, 1937-1938
    • “Light in the Darkness” (review)
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Anatoly RAZUMOV*

“We shall go on, naming names” (Razumov)

8 December 202014 December 2020 / editors (JC)

Anatoly Razumov
“Their Names Restored” (St Petersburg)

Yury DMITRIEV’s friend and colleague describes recent acquisitions by his Centre and work on the forthcoming second volume of Sandarmokh, a Place of Remembrance, that incorporates Dmitriev’s extensive research on those forcibly deported with their families to Karelia in the early 1930s:

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The Guardian of History

28 August 202014 December 2020 / editors (JC)

On 22 August, an exhibition opened in the Chamber Theatre («Петербургский интерьерный театр») at 104 Nevsky Prospect in St Petersburg about the historian and rights activist Yury DMITRIEV, the man who investigated one of the most terrible commemorative sites of the Great Terror, the Sandarmokh Clearing in Karelia.

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On the Eve of a Verdict

21 July 202014 December 2020 / editors (JC)

On Friday, 10 July, Memorial hosted an online press conference about the forthcoming verdict in the DMITRIEV case. (The moderator was Oleg Orlov.)

In the absence of a transcribed and translated version of that event, here is a synchronic translation into English, …

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A glimpse of Dmitriev

23 March 202015 December 2020 / editors (JC)

The hearing took place today, despite quarantine measures announced in connection with the Covid-19 outbreak.

Yury DMITRIEV in corridor of Petrozavodsk City Courthouse, 23 March 2020

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The Progress of the Trial: February 2020

27 February 202013 December 2020 / editors (JC)

“By 10 February, the prosecution planned, the final words by both sides would have come to an end and a verdict would be delivered,” says Anatoly RAZUMOV, a friend of Yury Dmitriev’s and a member of St Petersburg’s Human Rights Council. “However, the defence had prepared two speakers for that day.

Anatoly Ya. RAZUMOV, National Library, St Petersburg
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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 Derevyakeno 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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