Dmitriev on Solovki, 2005

15 February 202218 August 2025 / editors (JC)

Sergei Bykovsky today posted on Facebook a photo of Yury DMITRIEV in 2005 at Mount Sekirna on the Great Solovetsky Island. Dmitriev's little foster daughter Natasha was christened on that trip. That year Yury DMITRIEV received the new Golden Pen of Russia award for his publications about the building of the White Sea Canal in … Continue reading Dmitriev on Solovki, 2005

Destination unknown

28 October 202118 August 2025 / editors (JC)

More than one thousand prisoners were shipped from the island prison of Solovki in October 1937. For their relatives they disappeared even earlier when letters remained unanswered, but they were not forgotten. Their families tried to discover their fate. Many years would pass before it was learned that they had been shot. For decades, relatives … Continue reading Destination unknown

Sandarmokh, 5 August 2021

5 August 202118 August 2025 / editors (JC)

Today an extraordinary resource, "Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag", compiled by Petersburg Memorial's Research & Information Centre (and released in 2016), has been launched in an English version. What follows is an excerpt from that website's account of Sandarmokh. ============ [...] Historians believe that a considerable proportion of those executed in Karelia were … Continue reading Sandarmokh, 5 August 2021

Remembering the victims of Sandarmokh

5 August 202018 August 2025 / editors (JC)

On Wednesday, 5 August, people marked the annual Day of Remembrance in over 80 towns and cities all over the world (in Bulgaria, Latvia, Ukraine, Scotland and Brittany among others) by reading out the names of those shot at Sandarmokh in 1937 and 1938, during the Great Terror. Due to the Corona virus epidemic no … Continue reading Remembering the victims of Sandarmokh

“Light in the darkness” (II)

19 July 202014 December 2020 / editors (JC)

On Wednesday, 22 July at 2.30 pm (Moscow Time), Judge Merkov will announce the verdict in the Dmitriev case at the Petrozavodsk City Court. Yury DMITRIEV was arrested in December 2016 and has spent most of the time since then in prison. As shown by The Search for Sandarmokh, a book published last year, the … Continue reading “Light in the darkness” (II)