INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sergei Tyutryumov was executed by shooting on March 7, 1938
history teacher and lived there with his wife and two daughters until he was arrested and sentenced to death.He was fully rehabilitated in
the 1950s due to the absence of a crime committed
repression, installed a memorial plaque in his honor on the house where he lived in the 1930s."We are very glad..
Russia by the journalist Sergey Parkhomenko, has been commemorating individuals who fell victim to the oppressive Soviet regime,
specifically those who were executed or died in the Gulag prison camp system.Its work has come at a time when critics accuse the present-day
Russian authorities of downplaying Soviet repressions.These repressions, spanning from the early years of the U.S.S.R
victims of Soviet political terror, noting that the real figure could be up to four times higher.In Moscow, Last Address plaques can be
found on many streets in the heart of the city
Most of them commemorate those persecuted during the Great Purge in the 1930s.Documentary director Oksana Matievskaya, who leads tours along
the "Last Address" routes in the Russian capital, said that the situation with civil society in modern Russia echoes what happened here
He was rehabilitated in 1956.Osip Mandelstam, one of the most significant poets of the 20th century, was arrested in 1934 for his satirical
installed more than 2,500 plaques in Moscow, St
Petersburg and other Russian cities.For families and friends of those repressed, the installation of a plaque may be the only way to
grandmother in Moscow, she moved to Tomsk in hopes of finding information about her father, who was falsely accused of being a member of an
Prison Memorial MuseumLike Tyutryumov, between 928 and 2,801 people were executed on the same charges in Tomsk in the 1930s, according to
The plaques are funded by private donations and their installation often involves a small ceremony attended by relatives and
those who have been officially rehabilitated, some buildings refuse to allow them.Last year, Last Address also reported that some plaques
Petersburg, plaques were removed by order of the district administration following a denunciation
commemorates Soviet repressions, at least 739 people in modern Russia are currently facing prosecution due to their political views.Oksana
MatievskayaNatalia Kolesnikova / AFPMoscow authorities refused to authorize a memorial event for victims of political repression last year,
citing pandemic-era restrictions on public events.Like Memorial, the Sakharov Center human rights group, opened to honor the memory of
Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, was forced to shut down.In 2021, more than 100 public and cultural figures
sent an open letter to President Vladimir Putin describing the problems faced by the children of victims of Soviet repression, who were
continue working, Matievskaya said that Last Address "affirms the value of human life, regardless of merit, achievements, or positions one
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