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when most regions in Russia compiled and published Books of Remembrance, commemorating such victims. After 2004, however, as political prisoners and prisoners of conscience reappeared in Putin's Russia, there were repeated objections to the appropriation by the State of an unofficial day of protest, started in Soviet camps for "political" offenders. In October 2017, 37 former dissidents and rights activists from across the old Soviet Union signed a letter denouncing the hypocrisy of the new
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This is a list of 22 places from across Russia's 83 subjects of federation where the "Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression" is regularly observed. They range in size from cities of several million inhabitants to small towns and settlements like Inta and one site (Verkhny Armurdan)
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Most often the ceremonies were organised by the local city, town or village council and attended by relatives and descendants of the victims, local officials, clergy and schoolchildren. In a smaller number of cases the event was organised by local NGOs and other public institutions, e.g. the various
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The original Russian term for repression is plural, literally "Political Repressions" but more appropriately translated "repressive measures". The term refers to a variety of crimes committed against the population by the Soviet regime at different times since 1917. Summary executions, imprisonment,
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The following year there was an attempt by the Moscow city authorities to shift the ceremony from the Solovki Stone to the new Wall of Sorrow on the city's outer Garden Ring. This proposal, made ostensibly on the grounds of renovation work on Lubyanka Square, proved unsuccessful and the "Restoring
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The Memorial Society across Russia has generally played a much greater part in the early stages of commemoration. As the "Russia's Necropolis" survey released in 2016 demonstrates, exploratory groups from Memorial were often the first to identify unmarked burial grounds. The society's members then
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incorporate the term in their titles. The massive online database assembled since 1998 by Memorial (society) is entitled "Victims of Political Terror in the USSR". The 2016 survey of commemorative sites and burial grounds conducted by St Petersburg Memorial is called "Russia's Necropolis of Terror
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After its introduction in 1991, the official "Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression" was adopted all over Russia to commemorate and remember the millions "repressed" (arrested, exiled, sent to the camps or shot) by the Bolshevik regime, especially under Stalin. These were years
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On Sunday 29 October 2017, 5,286 people attended the Restoring the Names ceremony at the Solovki Stone a short distance from FSB (NKVD) headquarters on Lubyanka Square. Over one thousand reached the microphone to read aloud the names of those killed by the regime in Moscow and the Moscow Region
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Since 2007 Memorial has organised a day-long ceremony "Restoring the Names" every 29 October on the eve of the official Day of Remembrance in Moscow. In 2017, the contrast between the official and unofficial days of commemoration in the Russian capital, and the style in which they were held was
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An attempt to separate the victims of Stalin and Lenin from contemporary political prisoners was made in Moscow and some other places with the emergence of the unofficial "Restoring the Names" ceremony on the day before. This did not satisfy all critics. Traditionally, the Memorial Human Rights
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In 2014 the Research & Information Centre of St Petersburg Memorial found that 30 October was observed as an annual event at 103 of the commemorative sites it surveyed in Russia; it was much the most common date in the calendar. The sites were mostly but not exclusively associated with the
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Centre releases its latest list of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners on or around 30 October each year. On 9 November 2021 it announced that there were now 337 prisoners of conscience and political prisoners in the Russian Federation.
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On 30 October 2021 gatherings were held, despite ongoing Covid restrictions, at many places in the Russian Federation. The ceremonies took place, for instance, at memorial cemeteries located at the killing fields of the late 1930s, such as
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suffered mass deportation during the war, an experience yet more traumatic than the forced collectivisation of agriculture, "dekulakisation" and the Great Terror which they had suffered with the rest of the Soviet Union.
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campaigned for monuments, memorials and plaques to confirm their status. Members of the local Memorial Society are frequently mentioned among the regular participants at yearly ceremonies, on 30 October and other dates.
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The country's remaining Germans (28 August) and Poles living in Russia or visiting the country (2-3 September) each have their own days of "Remembrance and Sorrow". So do nations deported during the
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in the USSR. As numbers of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners grow in today's Russia, they comment, this distinction is being obscured, undermined and forgotten by the new tradition.
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on 18 October 1991, the same day as that body passed the "Law on the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Political Repression", a key piece of legislation still in force. (The
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the Names" ceremony went ahead as usual on 29 October 2018. Since Covid restrictions came into force ceremonies on 29 and 30 October in Moscow have been held online.
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This new use continues to be criticised by some Russian rights activists. They remind people that the date was originally chosen in the 1970s by protesting
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Certain other dates are marked each year in Russia by particular groups; sometimes in addition to 30 October, sometimes instead of that official date.
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In certain regions the victims of political repression are remembered on a different or additional date, e.g. the International Day of Remembrance at
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In one of Russia's eight Federal Districts, the North Caucasus, 30 October is sometimes observed, but generally cedes in importance to other dates.
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on 5 August each year. There is also sometimes a separate regional date for their remembrance, as on 9-13 September in the Chelyabinsk Region.
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Activists and researchers at Memorial now prefer the more specific term "political terror". This includes not just the unprecedented
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decree, 18 October 1991 No. 1763/1-I, "On establishing Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression".
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Associations for Victims of Political Repression, the Memorial Society, and museums and schools in places like
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30 October is an official date in the calendar of the Russian Federation. In 2007 President Putin visited the
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and Alexander Murzhenko. Their protest called among other things for recognition of their status as
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perpetrated in 1937-1938 or the forced collectivisation of agriculture, the mass resettlement of "
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has estimated that 12 million people qualified for rehabilitation under the terms of that act.)
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in southern Moscow and at certain burial grounds of the Gulag, e.g. Yagrinlag graves near
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former special settlement for peasant deportees, (Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous region).
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memorial plaque commemorating forced settlers, (Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous region).
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30 October is also commemorated at a few places in neighbouring countries (e.g. the
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for both the official date and the preceding "Restoring the Names" on 29 October.
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Memorials in Russia dedicated to the victims of the Communist regime (1917–1991)
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then prohibited such ceremonies. While the Ingush have a striking memorial in
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of 1937-1938 and the mass graves in which victims bodies were then concealed.
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Solovki Stone in St. Petersburg. One of its inscriptions: "To inmates of the
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The day has been observed since 30 October 1991. It was established by the
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former camp for "Wives of Traitors of the Motherland" in Kazakhstan).
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Memorial to the Victims of Political Repression, (Sverdlovsk Region).
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and deportation are frequently encountered between 1918 and 1954: see
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on 30 October. Ten years later it was the day on which
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Commemoration Day for the Victims of Communist Genocide
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Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression
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Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression
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Political Prisoner's Day was last marked in 1990. 1717:"Moscow's "Restoring the Names" (2018) in question" 747:Memorial "To the Victims of Political Repression", 552:burials in Zatyumenskoe cemetery, (Tyumen Region). 620:The commemoration is held on the same date as the 1482:"Andra ss [C]* Forced settlers graveyard" 395:Memorial to the Victims of Political Repression, 1752: 1383:"SAMARA [C] Burial site of the executed" 446:: Priests of the church of the Archangel Michael 347:: St Petersburg Memorial Society and other NGOs. 947:"NALCHIK [C]* Grave of Kyazim Mechiyev" 1347:"Inta [C]* east Intalag burial ground" 288:in front of the Polytechnial Museum (Moscow). 159: 1536:"IRKUTSK [C]* Pivovarikha graveyard" 607:Verkhny Armudan village (Sakhalin Region). 1745:Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag 624:, a mid-1970s initiative led by imprisoned 503:was destroyed on Kadyrov's orders in 2014. 385:: Inta town administration and Inta Museum. 36:. Since 1991 a monument in central Moscow ( 833: 675:The next day, Monday 30 October 2017, the 635:. In the late 1980s, during Gorbachev's " 622:Day of the Political Prisoner in the USSR 442:Pozdneyevka cantonment, (Rostov Region). 389: 370:, Nizhny Chov district (Komi Republic). 1761:Political repression in the Soviet Union 1689:""Restoring the Names", 29 October 2017" 1571:"Political Prisoner's Day in the USSR", 1297:"The Day of Remembrance in Petrozavodsk" 1133: 1131: 1100:"Inta [C]* Minlag burial ground" 1076: 1074: 604:(Magadan Region). 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Index


The Solovki Stone
Lubyanka Square
30 October
Russian
annual day
political repression in the Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Supreme Soviet of Russia
Memorial (society)
Butovo firing range
President Putin
Patriarch Kirill
Wall of Sorrow
political prisoners
Russian Orthodox Church
Russia's New Martyrs and Confessors
Second World War
Sandarmokh
political repression in the Soviet Union
mass murder
kulak
Soviet Germans
Kalmyks
Crimean Tatars
Civil War
Memorial (society)
Great Terror
Inta
Pechora

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