In Exile, May 1977 (45.13)

<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>>

[1]

On arrival in Vorkuta Yulia Okulova-Voznesenskaya (CCE 43.5 & CCE 44.19) stayed in a hotel.

At a medical examination, obligatory before obtaining work, the doctors concluded that work in the north would be quite unsuitable for her, due in particular to her weak eyesight (0.07).

In March, a few days before the trial of Volkov and Rybakov, she went to Leningrad. There, in the flat of N. Lesnichenko, she was arrested and taken by aeroplane under guard back to Vorkuta. This time she was put in a hostel. A criminal case was started against her under Article 186 (RSFSR Criminal Code: “Flight from a place of exile…”), and she signed an undertaking not to leave town. She was made to obtain work in a factory.

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[2]

On 26 January 1977, Yury Ivanovich FYODOROV (not to be confused with the ‘aeroplane man’ Yury P. Fyodorov, held in Mordovian Camp 1), exiled to Kargasok village in the Tomsk Region (CCE 44.19), went to visit a friend in the neighbouring district, in Podgornoye village, without the authorities’ permission.

Two days later Fyodorov was arrested there and taken back under guard to Kargasok; it appears that a case was then instigated under Article 186, RSFSR Criminal Code.

In February or March he was taken to Kaluga (Central Russia) for questioning in connection with the case of A. Ginzburg (CCE ///).

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[3]

In April Alexander Bolonkin (CCE 44.19) was transferred to work as a skilled worker in a household-services combine repairing household electrical and radio appliances. His address in east Siberia is: 671510, Buryat ASSR, Bauntovsky district, Bagdarin, poste restante.

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[4]

Vasyl Stus is serving a term of exile in the Far Eastern Magadan Region (CCE 44). He has been sent to work in a mine, although his health is poor and he was often ill in the camps (CCE 37 & CCE 38).

His address: 686071, Magadan Region, Tenkinsky district, Matrosovo settlement, poste restante. This is a border zone and requires a pass for entry.

Stus’s term of exile ends in autumn 1979.

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[5]

P.F. Kampov, exiled to the central Siberian Tomsk Region (CCE 42), received a money transfer for 50 roubles from Alexander Ginzburg (Relief Fund). Soon a KGB official summoned him and demanded that he return the money as being “unearned income”. Kampov refused.

On 18 April Kampov was released early from exile, due to illness — he had two years left to serve. Kampov is a Group II invalid, suffering from blindness (glaucoma) and tuberculosis. Since returning to Uzhgorod in Ukraine, Kampov has been trying to obtain work in his profession as a teacher of mathematics. He has already been turned down by Uzhgorod University, where he worked prior to his arrest, and by the Regional Education department.

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