Karelian historian Koltyrin died in a prison hospital

The director of the Medvezhyegorsk city museum Sergei Koltyrin died in a prison hospital in Medvezhyegorsk. The Sever. Reali was announced about this site by his brother Vladimir Koltyrin.

“He died tonight. He had oncology. I can’t say anything else. He was not in the general hospital and there, as I was told, not a pioneer camp, so that’s all that I know. What would be written in the death certificate,” said Koltyrin.

Information about the death of the historian was confirmed in the Republican Administration of the Investigative Committee. The department noted that they would start checking as soon as materials from the Federal Penitentiary Service come to them.

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In May 2019, Sergei Koltyrin was sentenced to 9 years in a colony on charges of pedophilia. In early March, the court freed him from imprisonment due to serious illness. However, the historian remained in the colony, as the prosecutor's office appealed the decision.

The investigation believes that Koltyrin, along with his acquaintance, Evgeny Nosov in the fall of 2018, committed depraved actions against a 13-year-old teenager. Nosova the court sentenced the 11 years in prison.

Koltyrin, along with the head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial human rights center, Yuri Dmitriev, was engaged in the work in the Sandarmokh complex, on the territory of which victims of political repressions of 1931-1941 were buried. Koltyrin criticized excavations in Sandarmokh organized by the Russian Military Historical Society in August this year in order to find on the territory of the memorial complex the alleged burials of the victims of the Finnish occupation of the Second World War.