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Kolyma: preparing an evening of memory of the first leader of the time of repression
In Magadan on October 11, an evening of memory of the first head of Kolyma from the time of settlement and repression of Edward Berzin will take place, the publication "Very" reported on September 22. In 1938, he was shot, and later rehabilitated.
Berzin was an ally of Felix Dzerzhinsky and the commander of the division of the Latvian shooters. In 1931, he was appointed the first director of Dalstroy. With him, Magadan began to be built, the first villages appeared. Under Berzin, the slave labor of prisoners was valued higher than with his followers, and people died less, historians believe.
SR in mobile SR on Instagram Wed FacebookThe evening at the initiative of the community of Kolyma Baltic is prepared by employees of the Pushkin library and the museum of local lore. Berzin’s granddaughter and great -granddaughter will come to the event.
"... Eduard Petrovich Berzin tried, and very successfully, to solve the problem of colonization of the harsh edge and at the same time the problems of" skew "and isolation. Consciousnesses that allowed ten to three years to return in ten years. Excellent food, clothing, working day in winter 4-6 hours, in the summer-10 hours, colossal earnings for prisoners, allowing them to help families and return after the deadline for the murmur to the murderer with the secured ones. People ... The then cemeteries of the prisoners are so small that one might think that the Kolyma citizens are immortal, ”wrote the first head of Kolyma Varlam Shalamov.
- In the Magadan region, a project of a historical and tourist cluster is being developed on the basis of former Sevvostla camps operating on Kolyma during the years of Stalinist repressions. The museum complex, which will be located in the open air, is proposed to include a penisrator of a transit prison in Magadan, the Dneprovsky and Butugychag camps.