Vladimir V. Tchernavin
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Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Tchernavin was a Russian-born ichthyologist who became famous as one of the first and few prisoners of the Soviet Gulag system to escape abroad.
Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Tchernavin
Solovki prison camp
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The Solovki special camp, was set up in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea as a remote and inaccessible place of detention, primarily intended for socialist opponents of Soviet Russia's n
Vladimir V. Tchernavin
…years of Gulag labor camps. He was able to have a brief meeting with his son before his transport to the camps. He was put on a prison transport to the Solovetsky labor camp on 2 May 1931. Initially having to perform hard labor with the other inmates, such as loading logs, he was subsequently transferred to the…
Solovetsky Monastery in 2013
Memorial to the victims of political repression in the USSR, on Lubyanka Square, Moscow, next to FSB headquarters, made of a boulder from the Solovetsky Islands
Memorial to the victims of political repression in the USSR, in St. Petersburg, made of a boulder from the Solovetsky Islands
Maxim Gorky visiting Solovki. To his right stands leading NKVD officer Gleb Boky