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Victims of political terror in the USSR in the 30s, 1937: how to find lists of repressed relatives?

Soviet repressions grinded more than one fate in their millstones. Now searches are underway for repressed people, bit by bit information is being collected that helps relatives find at least some information about the fate of a loved one.

Is it possible to independently find a repressed person in the existing database, how to use the Book of Memory and from whom to seek help? This is what our article will be about.

Where to look for lists of repressed people: databases, Book of Memory

If you are trying to find information about an unjustly convicted relative, then the first thing you will need, in addition to his last name and first name, is the date and place of birth of the victim of political terror.

Local archives of registry offices have materials on biological data about a person. If you need information about a relative convicted under a political article and living in Moscow at the time of conviction, then you should contact the Moscow State Archives.

For information about a repressed relative living in Moscow, please contact the State Archives of Moscow

It is better to start searching for documents of a victim of political repressions from the World Wide Web. There are resources where all the information from the KGB archives is collected. The opportunity to get acquainted with the preserved materials and cases of prisoners has appeared since the 1990s. It was then that access to the cases of prisoners was opened.

Where else to look for information?

  • In the Archives of the Memorial Society
  • On the “Open List” service (collects data available for review from the “Books of Memory” published by region)

Services have materials regarding the date of conviction, the article under which the person was brought. If you're lucky, here you can also find data on the number of the criminal case for the specific name of the convict.

Information about ancestors can also be “obtained” from those who are engaged in genealogy (search for information about ancestors). With them it will be easier to go through the process of searching for the desired archive, it will be possible to immediately correctly form the text of the request. And if there is at least some information about a relative imprisoned during the Great Terror, then with such a specialist it will be easier to go looking for the necessary documents.

The International Historical and Educational Society "Memorial" also assists everyone who seeks help in finding information. Its tasks include the collection and storage of historical data on prisoners during the years of repression in the post-Soviet space, and other information about the Great Terror. Information support on the resource is provided free of charge.



The starting point of searches on the resource "Memorial" is the section "Personal file of each"

Here is what you can find out about the victims of political repression through the Memorial Society:

  • Why the repressed person was shot
  • The number of the article according to which the person was sent to the camp or sent into exile
  • The reason for falling under the wheels of a repressive car

The application form on the resource is not installed. You can write a letter to the society and send it by mail, you can leave a request for searches by phone, or you can come and find out all the necessary information in person.

Algorithm for selecting data about a relative who was a victim of political terror on the Memorial resource:

  • The search begins with the special project "Memorial".
  • The starting point of searches on the service "Memorial" is the section "Personal file of each".

The resource has an online constructor. It "outputs" to the archive, from which you should start searching for data. After it becomes known which department to apply to the archive, you can send a request there.

The “Personal file of everyone” section is a kind of repository of search histories and comments about possible ways for relatives of victims of the Great Terror to gain access to files.

Video: Information about the repressed in 1937 became available on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

How to write requests to the archive to obtain information about a repressed person?

The collection of materials about relatives whose fates were broken by the crucible of repression takes place on open databases, the forum of the All-Russian Genealogical Tree. There are also forums that collect materials about victims of political repression in specific camps, places of exile, and deported peoples.

The archives of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Penitentiary Service could also tell a lot about the repressed. However, all regional services have not had data on the repressed for a long time, since all the cases of those arrested on political grounds were transferred to the regional information centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.



The darkness of ignorance about the Great Terror is gradually dissipating

GARF (State Archive of the Russian Federation) may also have materials about the repressed. Here you can find:

  • cases concerning the revolutionary tribunal
  • During the so-called "Red Terror" in the 1920s, emergency commissions were created, documents on which are now stored in the archives of the Saratov Region.

The darkness of ignorance about terror dissipates gradually. Information about many materials and data was kept silent. That is why the results of the work to perpetuate the memory of the victims, which has been going on for two decades, are extremely disappointing.

One of the main directions of such work, in addition to resurrecting the true face of our history, was to erect monuments to all victims of political repression in the regions. However, in reality, now we can only talk about the installation of foundation stones at the turn of the 1980-1990s.

Among the priority tasks was the work on the creation of the Russian National Museum dedicated to prisoners for political reasons. Only this vector on the return of the names of the repressed contains pitfalls: the exhibitions of regional local history museums provide negligible information on the Great Terror.

The existing memorial plaques erected in memory of the victims of repression do not contain any mention of how tragic the death of our fellow citizens was.

  • Commemorative signs are being installed at mass graves of those who have been subjected to unreasonable persecution by the authorities, but this is only a small fraction of what has been revealed to date. Information about the existing cemeteries near the camps and work settlements cannot be restored. But they number in the thousands!
  • Some cemeteries have become wastelands, others have long been plowed up or overgrown with forest. Residential areas appeared on the territory of many of them, while others became territories of industrial complexes. Citizens who have lost their relatives do not know until that time where their parents, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers were buried.
  • Far from being fulfilled is another task - the return of the names of those who died during the years of terror.
  • Curriculum vitae of prisoners during the terror, deported to a labor settlement or mobilized into the labor army, are stored in the Books of Memory of those arrested under a political article during the period of terror.
  • Books are published in small print runs in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Millions of people in different countries of the world find information about the fate of relatives whose fate was broken by the Great Terror, thanks to these certificates. Historians, local historians, teachers, journalists also find a lot of data necessary for their work. You can’t just get the Book of Memory in a bookstore or on the website. And not every library has a complete set of published martyrology.
All the names of the victims of political terror have not yet been named

The Memorial Society, founded in 1998, is a resource that collects information from local Books of Memory, which is a single database.

Details of the investigation of those arrested for political reasons can be found in the FSB archive of a particular region (where the relative was imprisoned) by writing a request. The Archives of the Federal Security Service contain investigation files of prisoners during the period of terror.

Information centers have the following information about the prisoner during the period of repression:

  • when he was in the camp
  • did he have complaints, did he write statements
  • date of death and place where he was buried

Therefore, you need to send a request here if you are interested in the above information. There is also data on special settlers - dispossessed and evicted, on deported peoples.

A request to the archive of the prosecutor's office can be submitted if you are looking for documents about a person rehabilitated after the Great Terror. The regional courts contain data on those rehabilitated in the 1950s. Some cases may be duplicated by the FSB archive. But in some regions this was not the case.

It is necessary to start searching for the data of the victim of terror from the archives of the FSB, at the same time duplicating appeals to the bodies that carried out repressions in their time.

How to write requests to the archive to obtain information about a repressed person?

  • You can state the essence of the request arbitrarily, in writing. You can formulate the text in free form. You must specify: who you are, for what purpose you are looking for data on a victim of political repression and why you need access to the file.
  • You can send a request by e-mail if a particular archive has a valid e-mail box.
  • On the website of public services, it is possible to issue a request and send it to the FSB archive. This can also be done through the Web Reception. There is also a detailed description of the mechanism for accessing archival information.
  • Archival information about the repressed is provided free of charge upon request.
  • It usually takes one or two months to process a request and prepare a response. In some cases, the response indicates that the request has been redirected to the archives of another agency.


You need to start searching for information about the repressed from the archives of the FSB

Video: Search for the repressed

What should I do if my request is denied?

  • A request for a repressed person can be denied in the following cases:
    In the absence of information about a person
  • If the case of the repressed contains information of national importance that constitutes a state secret. Such information may be in the case of a repressed person who held a high position.
  • Sometimes relatives are refused access to the file of the repressed or to some of the surviving documents. This is related to the law on personal data. The applicant retains the possibility of appealing the refusal received.
  • You can contact the following departments: the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Penitentiary Service for the constituent entity of the Russian Federation or the court. However, a positive outcome of the case is unlikely. One of the arguments of the one who was refused can be the fact that the repressed, the witnesses in the case, the scammers have long been dead. The law on personal data refers to the living, the dead are not mentioned in it.


What to do if your relative is rehabilitated?

In the case of the repressed relatives, the archives send an archival certificate. What should be written in the certificate?

  • basic information about the repressed
  • detailed information about the article
  • sentence

After receiving the archival certificate, the closest relatives of the repressed (children) can count on receiving social benefits, provided that the relative is rehabilitated through the court.
Rehabilitate a person through the court. This happens after a review of the decision of the body that subjected the injured relative to criminal prosecution, repression.

Video: E Are there benefits for victims of political repression?

In the USSR, it falls on 1937-1938. In history, it was called the Great Terror. Its victims were people of various social strata of society. In addition to the remnants of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia, party workers, military personnel and the clergy were subjected to repression. But basically the list of those repressed in 1937 was made up of representatives of the working class and the peasantry, most of whom, until the last moment, were not able to understand the essence of the charges against them.

Terror, unparalleled in its scope

Despite the fact that all decisions to carry out bloody actions were based on the decisions of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, it has been proved that in reality these orders were given personally by Stalin. In its scope, the terror of those years has no equal in the entire history of the state. The list of those repressed in 1937 is striking in its scale. When during the period data on the victims of that period were partially made public, it turned out that only under the fifty-eighth political article, 681,692 people were sentenced to death.

If we add to them those who died in places of detention from disease, hunger and overwork, then this number will increase to a million. According to the data that the academician had for 1937-1938. about 1,200,000 party workers were arrested. Considering that only 50,000 of them survived to be liberated, it becomes clear what a terrible blow the party suffered from its own leader.

Plenum, which became the beginning of terror

By the way, the very term "Great Terror" came to us from the UK. That is how he titled his book about the events of 1937-1938. English historian R. Conquest. We had a different name - “Yezhovshchina”, which came from the name of the main executioner of that bloody era, the head of the NKVD N. I. Yezhov, who also later became a victim of the inhuman regime created with his participation.

As researchers of the events of those years rightly point out, the beginning of the Great Terror should be considered the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks held in early 1937. Stalin made a speech at it, in which he called for intensifying the fight against the enemies of the people, who, according to his doctrine, stepped up their subversive activities as society advanced in the construction of socialism.

At the same plenum, accusations were made against the so-called right-left opposition - a political association that included both the Trotskyists - K. Radek, G. L. Pyatakov and L. B. Kamenev, and the right deviators - A. I. Rykov and N. A. Uglanova. N. I. Bukharin was named the leader of this anti-Soviet grouping. Among other things, Bukharin and Rykov were accused of preparing an assassination attempt on Stalin.

All members of this group were sentenced to capital punishment. An interesting detail - all 72 speakers who spoke from the rostrum of the plenum were soon also accused of subversive activities and shot. This was the beginning of an unparalleled rampant lawlessness in the history of the country. Characteristically, those who, sitting in the meeting room, voted for him, became his first victims.

Repression against the peasants

In the months following the plenum, the directive given by Stalin received its implementation. Already in June, the government decided on the widespread application of capital punishment against persons who had previously been members of the peasant rebel groups - the "green movement".

In addition, the list of those repressed in 1937 was replenished with the so-called kulaks, that is, peasants who did not want to join collective farms and who achieved prosperity through personal labor. Thus, this decree dealt a blow both to those former rebels who, after serving time, tried to return to normal life, and to the most industrious part of the peasantry.

Destruction of the command staff of the army

It is known that since the time of the Civil War, Stalin was very hostile towards the military. In many ways, the reason for this lies in the fact that his implacable enemy, Trotsky, was at the head of the army. During the years of the Great Terror, this attitude towards the military reached its extreme. Perhaps he feared in the future a coup organized by the most influential military leaders, capable of leading the masses of soldiers.

And although by 1937 Trotsky was no longer in the country, Stalin perceived the representatives of the high command as potential opponents. This resulted in mass terror against the command staff of the Red Army. Suffice it to recall the tragic fate of one of the most talented commanders - Marshal Tukhachevsky. As a result of these repressions, the country's defense capability was significantly reduced, which was clearly visible in the first years of the war.

Terror among the NKVD

The bloody wave of terror did not spare the organs of the NKVD themselves. Many of his employees, who only yesterday with all their zeal carried out Stalin's instructions, were among the convicts and added their names to the list of those repressed in 1937. During these years, many prominent leaders of the NKVD were shot. Among them are the people's commissar Yezhov himself and his predecessor Yagoda, as well as a number of prominent workers of this people's commissariat.

Archival data that has become public

With the onset of perestroika, a significant part of the NKVD archives was declassified, and this made it possible to establish the true number of those repressed in 1937. According to updated data, it amounted to about one and a half million people. The staff of the archive and their voluntary assistants have done a great job. In addition to the publication of general statistical data, the names of those repressed in 1937 were published, as well as throughout the entire period of political repression.

Thanks to this, many relatives of the victims of Stalin's lawlessness got the opportunity to learn about the fate of their loved ones. As a rule, everyone who wanted to recreate the history of those years and applied to the Soviet authorities with the question of where to find the lists of those repressed in 1937, who tried to obtain any documentary information about the events of that time, received a categorical refusal. Only thanks to democratic changes in society, this information has become publicly available.

Instead of going to the archive and poring over a lot of evidence, you can, knowing, for example, only a last name, find a person on the website "Victims of Political Terror in the USSR". Also, the database can become a support for scientific research: you can enter the data "clergyman, Kungur" or "peasant, Talitsa", and the database structures people according to the desired values.

The search is conducted on 13 values ​​for "personal data" and 12 for "stalking data". In addition to the usual full name, nationality, year and place of birth, you can find the address, education, party membership and type of activity.

Details of the accusation - "Vlasovite, spy", etc. can be entered into the data on the persecution.

The updated database now has a convenient and simple interface. Now you can add photos. So far, photographs of repressed residents of Moscow have been included.

The search for family ties between relatives that are in the sources has become available. The repetition of names  -   has been practically eliminated due to the fact that files on one person could, for example, be in the archives of different cities.

From April 2018, users themselves will be able to add information about the repressed, if they confirm it with the help of documents.

The compilers admit that there are still a few shortcomings, more often technical ones. For example, the same search formula can have multiple values. Thus, both a clergyman and a church activist can be recorded under "clergyman". The search can independently change the word, taking the letters for a typo  -  “Garif” into “tariff”. Often more than one search value will be needed. For example, the base does not define some settlement names.

Base programmers continue to fix bugs.

Work on the database began in 1998, and the latest version was published in 2007. The project manager is Yan Rachinsky, a member of the board of the Memorial Society, and the scientific director is Arseniy Roginsky. In Perm, it was presented by Robert Latypov, chairman of the Perm branch of the Memorial society, and Ivan Vasiliev, a leading member of Memorial.

For example, the information about one of the heroes of rubric 37/17 looks quite detailed:

Tatyana Margolina, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Perm region from 2005 to 2017, stressed the importance of this project. According to her, in recent years, projects related to the history of political repressions have not been without difficult discussions. This also applies to the development of a government document to perpetuate the memory of the victims of repression, and to the creation of memorial complexes, and to the creation of this base.

“Discussions always involve people with different worldviews. During the development of the government document, it became clear that future activities in this direction would be difficult, because there is no consensus in society on this matter.”

Tatyana Ivanovna said that there was even an option not to continue working, because it was unpleasant for society. However, after the adoption of the concept, the idea arose to create an interdepartmental working group with the participation of federal ministries and the public. It also included four commissioners for human rights in the regions, among whom was the Perm Ombudsman. The purpose of this commission was to coordinate activities to perpetuate the victims of political repression. One of the ideas is the creation of a national memorial monument by 2017. The members of the working group also discussed the work of federal ministries in this direction. For example, together with the Ministry of Education, it was decided to introduce memory lessons throughout the country on October 30th.


Tatyana Margolina Photo: Timur Abasov

“Only three people took part in a very brief and profound opening ceremony. A year ago, when we were discussing the conceptual ideas of all work to perpetuate memory, at a meeting of the working group there were tough discussions about the proposal of Natalya Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna to take four meanings: know, remember, condemn, forgive. Part of the working group was against the word “condemn”, and part was against the word “forgive”. I think that this meaning became official after Vladimir Putin invited the author of these words to name them publicly.”

» Documents about the repressed

I asked my good friend Vitaly Sosnitsky to write this section.

The thirty-seventh year will forever remain in the memory of people, especially the older generation. For some, he brought grief for the loss of loved ones, for someone he was remembered by the atmosphere of fear and an oppressive foreboding of trouble. Of course, the repressions did not arise under Stalin - they began immediately after the October Revolution, but it was 1937 that became the year of mass terror. During 1937-1938 more than 1.7 million people were arrested on political charges. And together with the victims of deportations and convicted “socially harmful elements”, the number of repressed exceeds two million.

Repression is any loss of rights and benefits, legal restrictions associated with illegal prosecution, imprisonment, unjustified conviction, sending children to orphanages after the arrest of parents, illegal use of coercive medical measures.

I. The first mass category is people arrested by state security agencies (VChK-OGPU-NKVD-MGB-KGB) on political charges and sentenced by judicial or quasi-judicial (OSO, “troika”, “two”, etc.) instances to death or to various terms of imprisonment in camps and prisons or to exile. According to preliminary estimates, for the period from 1921 to 1985, from 5 to 5.5 million people fall into this category. Most often, memory books included information about people who suffered in the period 1930-1953. This is explained not only by the fact that during this period the most massive repressive operations were carried out, but also by the fact that the rehabilitation process, which began in the Khrushchev era and resumed during perestroika, primarily affected the victims of the Stalinist terror. The databases contain victims of repressions of an earlier (before 1929) and later (after 1954) periods less frequently: their cases have been reviewed to a much lesser extent.

The earliest repressions of the Soviet government (1917-1920), dating back to the era of the revolution and the Civil War, are documented so fragmentarily and contradictorily that even their scale has not yet been established (and they can hardly be established correctly, since during this period there were often mass extrajudicial reprisals against "class enemies", which, of course, was not recorded in any way in the documents). Available estimates of the victims of the "Red Terror" range from several tens of thousands (50-70) to more than a million people.

II. Another mass category of those repressed for political reasons is the peasants, who were administratively expelled from their place of residence during the campaign to "destroy the kulaks as a class." In total, in 1930-1933, according to various estimates, from 3 to 4.5 million people were forced to leave their native villages. A minority of them were arrested and sentenced to death or imprisonment in a camp. 1.8 million became "special settlers" in the uninhabited areas of the European North, the Urals, Siberia and Kazakhstan. The rest were deprived of their property and settled within their own regions, in addition, a significant part of the “kulaks” fled from repression to big cities and industrial construction sites. The consequence of Stalin's agrarian policy was a massive famine in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, which claimed the lives of 6 or 7 million people (average estimate), but neither those who fled collectivization nor those who died of starvation are formally considered victims of repression and are not included in memory books. The number of dispossessed "special settlers" in the memory books is growing, although they are sometimes registered both in the regions from which they were deported and in those where they were deported.

III. The third mass category of victims of political repressions is the people who were completely deported from their places of traditional settlement to Siberia, Central Asia and Kazakhstan. These administrative deportations were most extensive during the war, in 1941-1945. Some were evicted preventively as potential accomplices of the enemy (Koreans, Germans, Greeks, Hungarians, Italians, Romanians), others were accused of collaborating with the Germans during the occupation (Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, peoples of the Caucasus). The total number of those expelled and mobilized into the "labor army" reached 2.5 million people. To date, there are almost no books of memory dedicated to the deported national groups (as a rare exception, one can name the Kalmyk book of memory, which was compiled not only from documents, but also from oral interviews).

All these repressions were reflected in certain documents, archival and investigative files, which are still kept in the departmental archives of law enforcement agencies and special services. Only a small part of them was transferred to the state archives for storage.

In order to preserve the memory of the victims of repression and help people restore the history of their families, in 1998 the Memorial Society began work on creating a single database, bringing together information from the Books of Memory, already printed or just prepared for publication in different regions of the former THE USSR.

The result of this work was the 1st album “Victims of Political Terror in the USSR” released in early 2004, which presented more than 1,300,000 names of victims of repression from 62 regions of Russia, from all regions of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two regions of Ukraine - Odessa and Kharkov.

Despite the huge changes that have taken place in recent years in all countries on the territory of the former USSR, the problem of perpetuating the memory of the victims of state terror remains unresolved.

This applies to all aspects of the problem - whether it is the rehabilitation of illegally convicted, or the publication of documents related to repressions, their scale and causes, or the identification of burial places of the executed, or the creation of museums and the installation of monuments. The issue of publishing lists of victims of terror has not yet been resolved. Hundreds of thousands of people in different regions of the former USSR (and in many countries where our compatriots live) want to find out the fate of their relatives. But even if a person’s biography is included in some of the books in memory of victims of political repression, it is very difficult to find out: such books are usually published in small editions and almost never go on sale - even in the main libraries of Russia there is no complete set of published books. martyrologists.

There are several on-line databases in the network. As practice shows, these databases contain information that is not available in Memorial's publication Victims of Political Terror in the USSR.

Here are some of them:

1) Project "Returned Names" http://visz.nlr.ru:8101

2) List of citizens repressed in the 1920s on the territory of the Ryazan province, rehabilitated by the prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region http://www.hro.org/ngo/memorial/1920/book.htm. There is information on convicts on probation or released.

3) Website of the Krasnodar "Memorial" http://www.kubanmemo.ru

5) Surnames of those shot on the Stele of the Central Cemetery of Khabarovsk http://vsosnickij.narod.ru/news.html , http://vsosnickij.narod.ru/DSC01230.JPG .

6) Website of the Lviv Memorial- http://www.poshuk-lviv.org.ua

7) Books of memory of victims of political repressions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, volume 1 (A-B), volume 2 (C-D) http://www.memorial.krsk.ru

8) New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church of the XX century, http://193.233.223.18/bin/code....html?/ans

9) St. Petersburg Martyrology of the Clergy and Laity, http://petergen.com/bovkalo/mart.html

10) The project "Open Archive", which the newspaper "Moskovskaya Pravda" is implementing with the Office of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for Moscow and the Moscow Region, nine years

11) Project "Repressed Russia" - 1422570 personalities, http://rosagr.natm.ru

12) Thematic database on the repressed Poles who lived in the Altai Territory and were convicted in 1919-1945. under article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, http://www.archiv.ab.ru/r-pol/repr.htm

What does such a variety of sources say? First of all, that many thousands of names of the repressed still, in spite of everything, remain unknown. You, and only you, can find out the unknown pages of the life of your relatives and restore their honest name from oblivion.

Search procedure (general case, from my own experience and using the recommendations of the site www.memo.ru) :

1) If you unknown where the relative lived at the time of the arrest. In this case, you must send a request to the Main Information Center (GIC) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (117418, Moscow, Novocheremushkinskaya st., 67).

The request must specify: last name, first name, patronymic of the repressed person, year and place of his birth, date of arrest, place of residence at the time of arrest. The request must contain a request to indicate the place where the investigation file is kept.

After receiving an answer, you should write to the institution where this very investigative file is stored. In this request, it will already be necessary to indicate what you want - to receive some specific certificate, extract or the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the investigation file.

2) If you known where the relative was born (and/or lived) at the time of arrest.

In this case, you need to send a request to the FSB Department of the region where your relative was born and / or lived at the time of arrest.

The request contains the same data of the repressed person as in the previous case.

At the same time, it does not matter whether this region is now part of Russia or not - the mechanism is the same throughout the entire territory of the former USSR. The only difference is that if the case is kept on the territory of Russia, then it can be sent to the FSB of the region where you live, so that you can familiarize yourself with it on the spot.

Cases are not sent from abroad (although there are exceptions), but a certificate or an extract is made. Alternatively, you can ask the case holders to send it for review to the regional city closest to your place of residence.

If the answer from the FSB is negative (that is, they do not have such a person), then you should write to the Information Center (IC) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the same region. If the answer is negative there, write to the GIC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Remember that according to the law, you have the right “to receive manuscripts, photographs and other personal documents preserved in files” of your repressed relatives.

If your situation is special and goes beyond this general case - please ask questions, we will try to help you. Requests can be posted on the forum. www.vgd.ru (section "Repressed") or on the website http://www.vsosnickij.narod.ru .

Here are examples of what can be learned from the archival and investigative files of the repressed:

- Date and place of birth (arrested person's profile, interrogation protocols);

- Patronymic (there was a case when even the daughter of the repressed believed that her father's patronymic was Andreevich, and from his profile it turned out - Andronovich);

- Composition of the family, place of residence and composition of property before 1917 (questionnaire of the arrested person, protocols of interrogations, certificates, metrics and other documents of a personal nature filed with the case);

- Composition of the family, place of residence and composition of property up to repression;

- Information about the arrested person (height, eye color, hair), information about the family, place of work, composition of property and place of residence in the special settlement and / or arrest (arrested person's profile);

- Information about the place (places) and the nature of work in custody, fingerprints, date and cause of death (prisoner's personal file);

- Photos, letters from relatives, metrics, birth (death) certificates, autobiographies, information about training, assignment to the active army, removal from the special settlement and other documents.

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3. Activities of the Beneficiary

3.1. The purpose of the activities of the Beneficiary in accordance with the Charter is:

Assistance in building a developed civil society and a democratic rule of law that excludes the possibility of a return to totalitarianism;

Formation of public consciousness on the basis of the values ​​of democracy and law, overcoming totalitarian stereotypes and assertion of individual rights in political practice and public life;

Restoration of historical truth and perpetuation of the memory of victims of political repressions of totalitarian regimes;

Identification, publication and critical reflection of information about human rights violations by totalitarian regimes in the past and the direct and indirect consequences of these violations in the present;

Assistance in the full and public moral and legal rehabilitation of persons subjected to political repression, the adoption of state and other measures to compensate for the damage caused to them and provide them with the necessary social benefits.

3.2. The beneficiary in his activities does not aim to make a profit and directs all resources to achieve the statutory goals. The financial statements of the Beneficiary are annually audited. The beneficiary publishes information about his work, goals and objectives, activities and results on the website www..

4. Conclusion of the contract

4.1. Only an individual is entitled to accept the Offer and thereby conclude the Agreement with the Beneficiary.

4.2. The date of acceptance of the Offer and, accordingly, the date of conclusion of the Agreement is the date of crediting funds to the bank account of the Beneficiary. The place of conclusion of the Agreement is the city of Moscow of the Russian Federation. In accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 434 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the Agreement is considered concluded in writing.

4.3. The terms of the Agreement are determined by the Offer as amended (subject to amendments and additions) valid (in force) on the day the payment order is issued or the day it deposits cash into the Beneficiary's cash desk.

5. Making a donation

5.1. The Benefactor independently determines the amount of the amount of the charitable donation and transfers it to the Beneficiary by any payment method indicated on the website www..

5.2. When transferring a donation by issuing a debit from a bank account, the purpose of the payment should indicate “Donation for statutory activities”.

6. Rights and obligations of the parties

6.1. The Beneficiary undertakes to use the funds received from the Benefactor under this Agreement strictly in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation and within the framework of the statutory activities.

6.2. The Benefactor gives permission for the processing and storage of personal data used by the Beneficiary solely for the performance of the specified agreement.

6.3. The Beneficiary undertakes not to disclose to third parties the personal and contact information of the Benefactor without his written consent, except when this information is required by state bodies that have the authority to require such information.

6.4. The donation received from the Benefactor, which, due to the closure of the need, has not been partially or completely spent according to the purpose of the donation indicated by the Benefactor in the payment order, is not returned to the Benefactor, but is redistributed by the Benefactor independently to other relevant programs.

6.5. The Beneficiary has the right to notify the Benefactor of current programs through electronic, postal and SMS mailing lists, as well as through telephone calls.

6.6. At the request of the Benefactor (in the form of an electronic or regular letter), the Beneficiary is obliged to provide the Benefactor with information about the donations made by the Benefactor.

6.7. The Beneficiary does not bear any other obligations to the Benefactor, except for the obligations specified in this Agreement.

7.Other terms

7.1. In the event of disputes and disagreements between the Parties under this agreement, they will, if possible, be resolved through negotiations. If it is impossible to resolve the dispute through negotiations, disputes and disagreements may be resolved in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation in the courts at the location of the Beneficiary.

8. Details of the parties

BENEFICIARY:

International Public Organization "International Historical, Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society "Memorial"
TIN: 7707085308
Gearbox: 770701001
PSRN: 1027700433771
Address: 127051, Moscow, Maly Karetny lane, 12,
Email address: [email protected] website
Bank details:
International Memorial
Settlement account: 40703810738040100872
Bank: PJSC SBERBANK MOSCOW
BIC: 044525225
Corr. account: 30101810400000000225