Remembrance (1): Lists and Names

9 May 202113 May 2021 / editors (JC)

Faced by the grim and relentless persecution of Yury DMITRIEV over the last four years, it’s easy to lose sight of the achievements of the past quarter century, those countless acts of remembrance across Russia and former Soviet states that make any simple return to the past unthinkable. Yury Dmitriev resumes work, 2018 During the … Continue reading Remembrance (1): Lists and Names

A wonderful person, a wonderful historian

8 January 202118 August 2025 / editors (JC)

On 3 January 2021 Mikhail ROGACHOV passed away in St Petersburg. He created "the best Book of Remembrance in Russia, the Komi Republic’s “Repentance” Martyrology," commented Anatoly Razumov and referred to his deceased colleague as "A wonderful person, a wonderful historian." Mikhail ROGACHOV (born Riga 1952; died 2021 of Covid-19 in Kronstadt hospital) Razumov continued: … Continue reading A wonderful person, a wonderful historian

Unique Tomsk Region Museum safe for this winter at least

28 December 202018 August 2025 / editors (JC)

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

The unquiet dead

11 December 20202 January 2022 / editors (JC)

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 ...