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
Books of Remembrance*
Unique Tomsk Region Museum safe for this winter at least
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
“We shall go on, naming names” (Razumov)
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: From all over the old Soviet … Continue reading “We shall go on, naming names” (Razumov)
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 Progress of the Trial: February 2020
“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 … Continue reading The Progress of the Trial: February 2020
The Dmitriev Affair 