The Dmitriev Affair

The Life's Work and Trials of Yury Dmitriev

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  • Yu.A. Dmitriev
    • Yu.A. Dmitriev
    • My Path to Golgotha
    • How we found Sandarmokh (video)
  • Remembrance
    • Solovki
    • Sandarmokh
      • Who wants to rewrite Sandarmokh?
      • The Search for Sandarmokh (Flige)
    • Krasny Bor
    • “Restoring the Names”
    • Kommunarka
    • Palochka Centre (Tomsk Region)
  • Timeline
    • Timeline 1, 1997-2018
    • The First Trial, 2017-2018
    • The charges
      • What We’ve Uncovered
      • What We’ve Uncovered (pt 2)
      • Natasha Held Firm
      • Last Words
    • Timeline 2, 2018-2021
    • Dates official and unofficial (2017-2018)
  • 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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Great Terror*

Mikhail Rogachov, 1952-2021

5 January 20217 January 2021 / 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.

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The unquiet dead

11 December 20202 January 2021 / editors (JC)

Scattered across the length and breadth of Russia (see Map of Memory), and neighbouring Kazakhstan, are hundreds of neglected or concealed burial grounds. Some 1,500 are currently known; others await commemoration or discovery.

Belbaltlag prisoners’ cemetery, discovered by Yury Dmitriev in August 2003

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Timeline (1), 1997-2018

11 December 202012 December 2020 / editors (JC)

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, the capital of Karelia.

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“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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Restoring the Names (2)

10 September 202014 December 2020 / editors (JC)

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 names.

Nikolai KRESTOVSKY, shot 2 December 1942

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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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