Political Prisoners’ Day 1975
(addition to CCE 38.12-1)
On the eve of 30 October 1975, a general search was carried out in the cells and workshops of Mordovian Camp 1.
After the search KGB official Demishev summoned the prisoners and tried to persuade them not to take part in the hunger strike planned for 30 October. To obtain their agreement he offered them packets of tea. Searches and cajoling talks also took place at Camp 10 in the Mordovian complex.
On 30 October the planned hunger-strike took place in Camp 1. Thirty prisoners out of 47 took part. In Camp 19, in addition to those mentioned in CCE 38, Matviyuk, Ovsiyenko and Rudaitis took part in the hunger-strike. In Camp 3 three men and four women went on hunger-strike.
Yury P. Fyodorov got two months in solitary for taking part in the hunger-strike. Officially this was for ‘infringement of the regime’.
On 30 October 1975 the mothers and wives of some political prisoners wrote an open letter to N. V. Podgorny. They fully supported the demands of the political prisoners and appealed to the Soviet government, demanding the introduction of a statute for political prisoners in the USSR. The letter was signed by these mothers of political prisoners; N. Bukovskaya, O. Meshko (mother of A. Sergiyenko) and G. Pinson (mother of B. Penson); and by these wives: T. Zhitnikova (wife of L. Plyushch), V. Isakova (wife of G, Davydov), V, Lisovaya, R. Moroz, L. Murzhenko, G. Salova (wife of K. Lyubarsky), E. Svetlichnaya and N. Fyodorova.
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Mordovia
Camp 19 is designed for 750-800 people.
The work in the camp is organized on the system of mixed brigades. The brigade’s wages are divided equally between all its members regardless of what each man has earned individually. The working conditions are bad: the machines are old and there is a great deal of noise.
At the end of January 1976 there were about 270 people in the camp. At the start of the year the output norm was raised by 10 per cent. Often Sundays are working days. This is announced over the radio or at the building site. Compensatory rest ‘by schedule’ (i.e., in turn) should be given for work done on Sundays, but it is difficult to obtain this, as in the absence of one worker the others must do his work for him.
The timetable includes repeated assemblies: for work, for morning exercise, for political education classes, for roll-calls twice a day. There is a free period of half-an-hour.
The political education classes take place five times a week. All prisoners now attend them. At these classes officers read out lectures according to an assigned plan which is sent to them.
The sanitary conditions are satisfactory: the barracks are clean. The camp shop sells margarine, sweets, tea, biscuits, small hard cakes, tinned fish, salted cucumbers and tomatoes in jars, mixed lard, margarine fat mixture, oil and jam. Milk and coffee are not sold.
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Vladimir Osipov (CCE 37 & CCE 38), Artyom Yaskevich (CCE 33), and Ramzik Markosyan (CCEs 34, 37) have been brought to Camp 19.
Markosyan has severe stomach ulcers. In January and February 1975, he was deprived of access to the camp shop and of visits.
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The following persons are also in Camp 19 at present:
Ushakov — a lecturer from Leningrad. Sentenced under Article 70.
His co-defendant Sarkisyan, a taxi-driver, is in Perm Camp 36. Their trial took place no earlier than September 1975.
Leonid Trepov — sentenced to 12 years for attempting to cross the border; was earlier in Vladimir Prison.
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Yury Aleksandrovich Khramtsov (b. 1931), sentenced to 25 years in 1953.
An American spy, he was parachuted onto the territory of the Soviet Union together with a partner. The partner shot him in the head and handed him over to the authorities. He has twice been transferred to Vladimir Prison; the second time he was there from 1971 to 1974. For refusing to work (officially he has the right not to work, as he is an invalid), he was put in solitary, where he went on hunger-strike. Khramtsov has tried several times to obtain recognition of his U S citizenship and transfer to the camp for foreigners. Nothing has come of these efforts.
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In September 1975 investigator Potapov visited Alexander Bolonkin in Camp 19 to question him in connection with the Tverdokhlebov case. A. Bolonkin refused to give any evidence and stated that if the investigating authorities required it, they could bring him to speak at the trial in Moscow.
On 2 October Bolonkin was put in the punishment barracks for four months. On 23 October he was transferred to the cooler, whose walls were covered with various scrawled anti-Soviet slogans. The authorities wanted to blame Bolonkin for these, but did not succeed through lack of evidence (see also CCE 38).
On being released from the punishment barracks, Bolonkin received a visit from his wife. After the visit, papers given to her by Bolonkin were confiscated from her. For this Bolonkin was put in the camp prison. Declarations by Bolonkin to official institutions are being declared libellous by the administration and are not being allowed to leave the camp. At the present time his state of health is very bad: he has chronic gastritis and serious inflammation of the intestine.
Bolonkin’s term ends in September 1976.
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At the beginning of 1976 Antanas Sakalauskas was taken away from Camp 19.
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At the beginning of 1976 Vasyl Ovsiyenko (b. 1949, arrested 1973 under Article 70 of the RSFSR Criminal Code; sentence, four years) was transferred to the hospital (in Camp 3). He was assigned to the psychiatric section. As there are no free beds in this section at the moment, he has been placed temporarily in a surgical ward.
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Three days before Vasyl Stus was due to be transferred from Camp 17 to a Leningrad prison hospital, he was summoned to the guardhouse, given his clothes for the journey and sent back to the camp. Stus and his comrades found a microphone in the padded jacket he had been given. They demanded that this fact be investigated by a special commission.
In Leningrad Stus was operated on. He has now returned to Camp 17. His state of health is satisfactory.
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Sergei Soldatov has been brought to Camp 17 (CCE 38).
At the end of December 1975, Vasily Lisovoi was taken to Kiev for ‘a chat’ with officials.
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Commencing in October 1975, searches were carried out in all the political zones in the Mordovian camps, in the course of which the following were confiscated: official documents (copies of sentences, for example), copies of complaints and declarations addressed to official Soviet institutions, and personal notes and letters. V. Chornovil had his verses confiscated. B. Penson and S. Shabatura had drawings confiscated. Prisoners report that they no longer receive books ordered through ‘Books by Post’.
The administration and KGB officials have carried out prophylactic talks with prisoners, threatening them with new terms of imprisonment for communicating any information about the camps to the outside world. V. Stus, V. Chornovil and B. Penson were personally warned about this.
It has been announced in all the political zones in the Mordovian Camp-complex that all visits would be cancelled until 10 March. In the zones for common criminals visits are taking place as before.
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On 12 January 1976 Ukrainian political prisoners in the Mordovian Camps held a hunger-strike to mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the 1972 repressions in the Ukraine.
In December 1975 Panfilov, deputy-procurator of the Ukrainian SSR, and the historian (?) Trapeznikov from Moscow visited the Mordovian Camps. They talked to prisoners whose works have been published abroad, suggesting that they should sue the publishers for printing these without the permission of the authors.
In exchange for their agreement, the authors were promised royalty fees and a re-investigation of their cases.
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Perm
Since the mass hunger strike of 1974 (CCE 33), the situation in Camp 35 has not been normalized. The prisoners’ defence of their human rights has been met by repressive measures on the part of the administration, Thus, recently at least 13 people have been transferred to Vladimir Prison (CCEs 33-38).
Since the beginning of 1975 many prisoners have unilaterally adopted ‘the status of political prisoner’, and since September 1975 they have been renouncing Soviet citizenship.
From 16 to 21 September the following prisoners sent announcements of their intention to renounce Soviet citizenship to N. V. Podgorny:
Altman, Basarab, Verkholyak, Gluzman, Gorbal, Gurny, Demidov, Dyak, Ermakov, Zakharchenko, Kalynets, Kivilo, Kryuchkov, Malyazhinsky, Mamchur, Marchenko, Motryuk, Ogurtsov, Pidgorodetsky, Prishlyak, Pronyuk, Savchin, Svetlichny, Smirnov, Soroka, Tsepko, Shovkovoi, Shushunin.
Soon Basarab, Demidov, Motryuk and Shovkovoi were summoned by KGB officials Utyro and Shchukin and by Kitmanov, the deputy camp commandant. The authorities demanded that they renounce these declarations.
On 25 September, after a long spell in the cooler, I. Valdman renounced his Soviet citizenship.
Before the anniversary of the October Revolution, Utyro and Shchukin carried out a search of all the prisoners’ personal effects. They confiscated the texts of renunciations of citizenship and unsent letters to K. Waldheim and foreign ambassadors. These documents were confiscated as being ‘libellous’.
On 10 November Mashkov renounced his citizenship.
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On 10 December renunciations of citizenship were sent to the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet; letters were sent to foreign ambassadors, inquiring about the possibility of acquiring citizenship of the country concerned; a letter was sent to the Secretary-General of the U N, asking him to take them under the jurisdiction of the U N while the question of citizenship was being settled; a complaint against the camp administration, which was holding back the above-mentioned declarations, was sent to the U N Human Rights Commission.
Those who renounced their citizenship included; Asselbaums (who wrote to the Austrian ambassador), Basarab (wrote to the U S ambassador), Verkholyak (to the Canadian ambassador), Gluzman (to the U N), Grabans (to the Danish ambassador), Demidov (to the French ambassador), Zograbyan to the Italian ambassador), Kalynets (?), Kivilo (to the Swedish ambassador), Marchenko (?), Motryuk (to the French ambassador), Ogurtsov (to the Belgian ambassador), Pidgorodetsky (to the Chinese People’s Republic), Pronyuk (to the Netherlands), Svetlichny (to the UN), Soroka (to Great Britain), Shakhverdyan (to Switzerland), and Shovkovoi (to the Netherlands).
In addition, it is known that Mamchur wanted to appeal to the Vatican for help, Valdman to Norway, and Savchin and Mashkov to Canada.
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Diary of Camp 35
(September 1975-January 1976)
1975
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
17 September: Grabans was deprived of access to the camp shop because of a report by Kitmanov.
At the end of September, a routine quarrel took place between officials of the medical unit and the prisoners about the quality of the food. The immediate reason for the quarrel was the inedible nature of the fish.
8 October: Because of a report by Polyakov, Ogurtsov was punished for ‘insolent and coarse language’. Even before this happened, Ogurtsov had informed the administration that he would henceforth refuse to speak to Polyakov.
On the same day Zograbyan refused to work as a lathe-operator because he was a trained metal-worker and sewing-machine operator and there was work available in the camp in these specialities. He was deprived of a visit.
25 September: Valdman was not allowed to go to his work after roll-call, but on the following day he was given 15 days in the cooler — for refusing to work. Procurator Muradyan of Chusovoi district told Valdman: ‘You can go on being punished for ever because of one infringement of the regime.’
8 October: Valdman was lying in the hospital with pneumonia. He was prescribed antibiotics, but no check was made on his reaction to them. Valdman, already worn out by his time in the cooler, went into a state of shock after being given the medicine — he had fits of fainting and shuddering, and his larynx swelled up. He was relieved of this condition by a male nurse because no doctor was there. (At the time Dr Solomina was searching for spare blankets — see below.)
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9 October: About ten prisoners sent off identical statements:
To the USSR Supreme Soviet.
The USSR Parliamentary group,
Deputy V. P. Ruben [chairman of the group]
DECLARATION
At one of the previous conferences of the Inter-Parliamentary Union the ‘problem of torture in the modem world’ was discussed. In this connection I consider it necessary to inform you of the fact that in Camp VS 389/35, where I am being held, my comrade Valdman. an Estonian, has been subjected to torture over a lengthy period of time.
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10 October: An assizes session of a court changed the type of Valdman’s punishment — transfer to Vladimir Prison. Valdman was sent to Vladimir on 15 November.
8 October: Polyakov carried out confiscations of ‘spare’ cotton blankets and padded mattresses. This action was conducted on the basis of MVD order No 20 of 1972 [CCE 33]. Among those who had their blankets confiscated were invalids, chronically sick people and the very old. Doctor Solomina took part in the blanket hunt.
To the Executive Committee of the Union
of the Red Cross Society and the USSR Red Crescent
On 8 October 1975 in Camp VS 389/35, in view of the approaching cold of winter, the administration forcibly confiscated from the prisoners, including invalids of the First and Second Groups, the following ‘spare’ objects: cotton blankets and padded mattresses, probably with the aim of preventing colds. I myself had my mattress and blanket confiscated. As I shall no longer be able to make use of the above mentioned objects myself, I ask you to demand them from the administration and hand them over to the prisoners in Chilean political camps as an expression of the international solidarity of workers. (Signature)
After these declarations had been handed in, the confiscated objects began to be returned to invalids from 10 October onwards.
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9 October: Zograbyan was put in the camp prison.
10 October: Marchenko and Yermakov were deprived of access to the camp shop.
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The prisoner Bruzas, who is seriously mentally ill, is being held in Camp 35.
30 September: Gluzman wrote on behalf of Bruzas to his colleague — Academician Snezhnevsky. He wrote that in spite of his condition Bruzas had not once been examined. The day after the letter was sent a consultant psychiatrist arrived in the camp. He examined Bruzas (at the same time he summoned Soroka and threatened to put him in a psychiatric hospital is Soroka did not stop writing complaints to official institutions).
One week later, on 8 October, Gluzman was told that his letter to Snezhnevsky would not be sent, as it contained ‘information not suitable to be disclosed’.
10 October: A court ordered the release of Bruzas on medical grounds, and a week later he was freed from the camp.
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10 October: KGB officials Afanasov and Utyro confiscated ‘for examination’ a sealed envelope addressed to ‘The Procurator of the RSFSR’. The envelope contained a complaint about the actions of the administration in regard to Zograbyan.
KGB officials and a few camp officers carried out a search on 14 October, which lasted for many hours. The handwritten text of an open letter to the editor of the journal The Journalist was confiscated from Marchenko. This letter was a response to an article by two journalists from East Germany, who had described in the journal their visit to a Chilean political camp.
15 October: A delegation of public figures from Ivano-Frankovsk, led by KGB officer Novitsky, visited the camp.
16 October: Polyakov, Pimenov, Osin, Kuznetsov and Khromov carried out education of Kalynets, Gluzman, Demidov, Zograbyan and Shakhverdyan.
17 October: The ‘Educative Commission’ (Polyakov, Pimenov, Osin, Ryabyshev, Sidyakova, Kotlyachkov, Pavlov and others) summoned Zograbyan because of his ‘bad attitude to work’.
18 October; Pimenov deprived Shakhverdyan of a visit for ‘impudent behaviour during prophylactic and educative commissions’.
18 October: Zograbyan was put in the camp prison for the second time, after refusing to work as a lathe operator.
24 October: Zograbyan came out of the camp prison.
A conversation between Ensign Gubarev and Zograbyan:
G: ‘Now you’ve got involved with the Yids, you’ll be sitting in the camp prison all the time.’
Z: ‘But there are no Jews left in the camp except Gluzman.’
G: ‘Yes, it’s exactly him you mustn’t get involved with, or you’ll be inside for the next 30 years; there are people like that here — with 30-year sentences.’
25 October: On the orders of the administration, some of the prisoners carried prison-style bunks into one of the barracks — bunks made of iron. The prisoners from these barracks had earlier been taken out. The next morning, they began to return, supervised by Polyakov. The prisoners protested against the prison bunks.
Demidov: ‘Where’s the court decision transferring me to a prison regime?’
Polyakov: ‘You’ll get the court decision. It will soon come.’
From protests the prisoners switched to action. In spite of cordons of warders and the personal interference of Polyakov, many of them managed to exchange the bunks for those they had had before. In the evening, they wrote declarations to the Chusovoi Procurator’s Office.
27 October: Degtyarnikov, Head of the KGB operations section, summoned Marchenko. He was extremely displeased with Marchenko’s letter to the editor of The Journalist.
Then Degtyarnikov had a talk with Ermakov and advised him to stop his protests and demands for his case to be reconsidered. (Ermakov was charged with disseminating anonymous letters — CCE 38). When Ermakov said that there was not a single witness to the charge about anonymous letters, Degtyarnikov retorted: ‘All right, so there are no witnesses, but we are convinced that you’re the author of the letters, and that’s enough.’ [note 174]
Another quotation from Degtyarnikov: ‘After 1937 the security organs did not fabricate a single case. That’s already an historical fact . . . We’ve now received the powers we’ve been asking for for a long time. Like what happened in 1952.’
In October Prishlyak received an answer from the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR to his declaration of 5 September, which had been dedicated to the anniversary of the establishment of ‘the Red Terror’ by the Council of People’s Commissars. The answer read: ‘Your plea for a pardon has been sent for examination to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.’
29 October: Senior Lieutenant Timofeyev tried to have a talk with prisoners who had sent declarations on 5 September to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. However, they refused to talk with him.
NOVEMBER
3 November: Demidov was deprived of access to the camp shop.
In October and November Gorbal, who was in the punishment barracks, was deprived of access to the camp shop on several occasions. Once he was barred from the shop for not getting up at the signal to rise, on a day when he had been excused work by the doctor.
4 November: A letter to his Canadian relatives was confiscated from Prishlyak. 10 November: Zograbyan was deprived of access to the camp shop for refusing to work.
14 November; After making representations to Osin, the production chief, Zograbyan was put in the camp prison for three days.
18 November: Zograbyan appealed to Yarunin to give him medical aid.
19 November: Zograbyan was given 15 days in the cooler for refusing to work as a lathe-operator.
26 November: Kitmanov reported Kalynets for ‘drinking tea in the cultural-recreation room’ (see also CCE 38).
10 November: Mashkov adopted the ‘status of political prisoner’ and sent a declaration to the USSR Supreme Soviet renouncing his Soviet citizenship. At the same time, he wrote a plea to K. Waldheim asking to be taken under the jurisdiction of the U N, and a letter to R. Ford, the Canadian ambassador to the USSR, asking for Canadian citizenship. These letters were not dispatched from the camp.
On the same day Mashkov was put in the camp prison for seven days. One day after he came out he was put in the prison again.
25 November: Mashkov was summoned for a talk. Polyakov threatened to have him put in a psychiatric hospital.
On 27 November Mashkov was put in the punishment barracks for six months. After this he did not go to work for a long time. Mashkov had never worked on a sewing machine before; he asked to be shown how to operate it. Chaika responded by ordering him to be given the cooler food ration for ‘refusal to work’. Mashkov went on hunger-strike and Chaika withdrew his order.
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4 January: Mashkov went out to work for the first time.
30 November: Petrov ended the hunger-strike he had begun on 12 September (CCE 38). He ended the strike on the condition that he would be put in the hospital.
On the evening of the same day Petrov was hospitalized.
Since November a new officer has been working at the camp — Lieutenant Shukshin.
At the end of November, the prisoner Pavlov was transferred to Camp 36 from Camp 35.
In November Demidov was deprived of a visit for slowness in getting dressed. 1 December Svetlichny and Kalynets were deprived of access to the camp shop. Since December, the chief of the operations section has been Lieutenant Bukin.
DECEMBER
9 December: An assizes session of a court examined the case for the release on medical grounds of Gogolyuk, who is seriously ill; the case for release was rejected, In his speech procurator Muradyan argued that ‘he’s not been inside long enough’. (Gogolyuk was born in 1920; during the war, he collaborated with the Germans; he is serving his second term, which began in 1973, Chronicle).
9 December: Sitchenko was transferred to Camp 37.
Chaika to Cuksis (b. 1912, arrested 1963, sentence 15 years): ‘We’ll just keep squashing you bit by bit, and your complaints don’t get any further than the gates’. He also said to Kakiks (b. 1917, sentence 25 years): ‘Well, drop dead if you can’t work’.
19 November: Dyak and Kochubei were taken off to Camp 37 in a serious condition. Kochubei was hospitalized at once, Dyak three days later.
20 December: Matti Kiirend arrived in the camp (CCE 38).
On the same day Ashuika, who served during the war in the German police force, was brought to the camp. He was sentenced to 15 years by the Supreme Court of the Belorussian SSR, He is 53 years old.
23 December: Kitmanov and Osin summoned Soroka and Marchenko. They were threatened with reprisals for not fulfilling the work-norm, although they are both invalids.
24 December: Gilel Butman returned from Vladimir Prison. He had received one year in prison at the time of the 1974 events. Butman was transported to the camp with criminals, who had started a fight and tried to steal his few remaining possessions. A year ago, when he was on the journey to the prison, the guards beat Butman with their rifle butts, shouting ‘Yid face’, and threatened to set the dog on him. Butman then complained to the procurator’s office and received the following answer: ‘… the report has not been confirmed. Butman himself attacked the guards.’
Kitmanov said to Orlovich in December, ‘If you go on praying, we’ll punish you.’
24 December; Shakhverdyan was deprived of access to the camp shop (he had not gone to ‘get acquainted’ with the newly appointed Lieutenant Bukin).
On the next day Matusevicius was put in the camp prison for ten days for refusing to work. (He is 46 years old; he got a 25-year sentence in 1953. He is ill with a heart condition; he has asked for medical aid and exemption from work.)
25 December: Zograbyan was deprived of access to the camp shop for refusing to work as a lathe-operator.
26 December; A reply was received from the Chusovoi procurator’s office to the declarations about the prison-type bunks. The actions of the administration were declared to have been correct.
26 December: Because of illness, Svetlichny was not in a condition to reach the canteen. Gluzman wanted to take his supper to him at the barracks — but this was not allowed.
29 December; Zograbyan wrote a petition to the International Labour Organization and handed it in to be posted. On the same day he was put in the camp prison. The petition was handed over to the KGB.
In December Shakhverdyan was sent to the punishment barracks — for ‘libellous complaints’.
As already reported, Altman adopted the status of political prisoner in September. From that moment he has hardly been out of various places of punishment. On 4 January he came out of the punishment barracks. On 5 January he was put in the cooler again for 15 days. Officially, Altman was punished on each occasion for refusing to work.
1976
JANUARY
7 January: Petrov resumed his hunger-strike, as he had not received an answer to his declarations. He was in the punishment barracks, as before. On 12 January he sent a declaration to Brezhnev announcing that he was thinking of renouncing Soviet citizenship.
14 January: Zograbyan was sent to the punishment barracks.
15 January: ‘In connection with the closure of the central hospital in institution VS 389 for repairs,’ all the patients were discharged. Among them was Vladimir Dyak, whose condition is said to have deteriorated.
15 January: Zograbyan was told that his declaration to the International Labour Organization had been passed to the Chief Administration for Corrective Labour Institutions.
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In October 1975 Motryuk was seriously ill: he has furunculosis of the head. In December Pronyuk’s condition grew worse — he had frequent fainting fits and dizzy spells. He has tuberculosis of the lungs.
Svetlichny is seriously ill — he suffers intensive attacks due to kidney disease and often has bleeding from the nose.
Vladimir Yakovlevich Cherkavsky has a serious kidney disease. He is greatly in need of the following medicines: pyat-nok, bisentol and dopingit.
Cherkavsky is about 50 years old. He has about a year left to serve of his ten-year sentence; then he has a further five years in exile.
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Camp 36
During his spell in the prison of Camp 36, Vladimir Balakhonov suffered a major haemorrhage from the stomach. He was given no medical assistance, in spite of protests by his comrades which took the form of a hunger-strike.
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Yury Vladimirovich Dzyuba is in Camp 36. Dzyuba was born in 1950; he lived in Kharkov and has an uncompleted higher education.
In 1971 Dzyuba sent an application to the Kharkov Visa Department asking to renounce his Soviet citizenship and emigrate to the USA, and paying tax amounting to 500 roubles. On 20 August 1973 he was arrested on a charge of anti-Soviet propaganda. The real reason for his arrest was probably a letter of his to the USSR Ministry of the Interior. This letter was broadcast by Radio Liberty in the autumn of 1974. [note] From the time he handed in his declaration until his arrest, Dzyuba was forced to leave his place of work three times ‘at his own request’.
The investigation took nine months. During this time Dzyuba underwent three psychiatric examinations, the last of these at the Serbsky Institute. He was declared sane.
Dzyuba was sentenced by a Kharkov court to five years in strict-regime camps, for ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda’. The court was in session from 17 to 23 June 1974. He arrived in the camp on 21 September 1974.
A. Turik and Gaiduk have been transferred to Vladimir Prison for assuming the status of political prisoners.
P. Plumpa refused to work on Christmas Day (25 December).
On 8 January 1976, Sergei Kovalyov arrived in Camp 36.
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Camp 37
On 6 February 1976 Izrail Zalmanson was put in for writing a series of declarations.
The Chronicle continues the list of political prisoners in Camp 37, which was begun in CCE 38.12-2:
27. Yury Vasilev (Article 70. four years).
28. Pyotr Vinnichuk (has been in captivity since 1973).
29. Boris Zalivako (Article 64, eight years plus five in exile, since 1969).
30. Andrei Kravets (Article 70, three years since 1973).
31. Andronik Markaryan (Article 70, four years since 1973).
32. Razmik Markosyan [note] (Article 70, seven years plus three in exile, since 1974).
33. Radomir Mikitka (Article 70, five years).
34. Dmitry Mikheyev (Article 64. six years since 1970).
35. Boris Mudrov (Article 64, six years).
36. Nikolai Petrov (Article 64, ten years since 1974).
37. Nikolai Sinkov (Article 70, five years since 1973).
38. Vladimir Sitchenko (Article 64, ten years).
39. Vladimir Slovodnyuk (Article 70, five years since 1973).
40. Konstantin Terebenin (Article 64, 15 years since 1971).
41. Viktor Khaustov (Article 70, four years since 1973).
42. Eugenius Juodvirsys (Article 70, two-and-a-half years).
43. Anatoly Merkurev.
44. Grigory Gimpu (Article 70, six years).
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