007: Tsapok. Tsapko Nikita Trofimovich (1913-1942). Personal file of a prisoner
Tsapko Nikita Trofimovich, born in 1913. A native and resident of the village of Gizovshiny, Lyubarsky district, Zhitomir region, Ukrainian, collective farm accountant. Distinguishing features: height above average, light brown hair, gray eyes. Disabled (missing left arm).
He was arrested on June 22, 1941 by employees of the Lyubarsk RO NKGB on charges of conducting "anti-Soviet agitation among collective farmers, praising the fascist system of Germany, spreading various kinds of provocative rumors and demonstrating defeatist tendencies" , i.e. a crime under Art. 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR. From the Lyubarsk prison, as a person under investigation for the NKGB Directorate of the Zhitomir Region, he was sent on June 25, 1941 to the Zhitomir Prison, then to the Dnepropetrovsk Prison, from there on July 21, 1941 to the Novocherkassk Prison, then transferred to the Ust-Kamenogorsk Prison, and then further to the east of the country. At the end of 1941, he ended up in Prison No. 3 of the NKVD Directorate of the Novosibirsk Region (Tomsk), where he died on January 9, 1942 in the prison hospital. The prison doctor's death certificate stated that the cause of death was "natural and resulted from diarrhea and exhaustion."
The file was discovered by chance, in the damp basement of SIZO-1, about 80 years after it was established. The file is in a deplorable state, the pages are eaten away by fungus and falling apart. The museum staff attempted to dry the documents and make copies.
Names (1)
Tsapko Nikita Trofimovich, Фигурант дела / документа
Accountant of a collective farm in the Zhitomir region. Arrested by the NKVD on June 22, 1941, died in a prison hospital in Tomsk on January 9, 1942
Born in 1913. A native and resident of the village of Gizovshiny, Lyubarsky district, Zhitomir region, Ukrainian, collective farm accountant. Disabled (missing left arm). Distinguishing features: height above average, light brown hair, gray eyes.
He was arrested on June 22, 1941 by employees of the Lyubarsk RO NKGB on charges of conducting "anti-Soviet agitation among collective farmers, praising the fascist system of Germany, spreading various kinds of provocative rumors and demonstrating defeatist tendencies" , i.e. a crime under Art. 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR. From the Lyubarsk prison, as a person under investigation for the NKGB Directorate of the Zhitomir Region, he was sent on June 25, 1941 to the Zhitomir Prison, then to the Dnepropetrovsk Prison, from there on July 21, 1941 to the Novocherkassk Prison, then transferred to the Ust-Kamenogorsk Prison, and then further to the east of the country. At the end of 1941, he ended up in Prison No. 3 of the NKVD Directorate of the Novosibirsk Region (Tomsk), where he died on January 9, 1942 in the prison hospital. The prison doctor's death certificate stated that the cause of death was "natural and resulted from diarrhea and exhaustion."
Source: Archival file of prisoner of Tomsk prison N.T. Tsapko // Archive of the Memorial Museum.
Documents (10)
001. Personal file of prisoner Tsapkov Nikita Trofimovich. Title page
Started June 22, 1941
Completed January 9, 1942
Arch. No. 1289
003. Arrest warrant. City of Lyubar, June 22-23, 1941.
Transcript
I sanction the arrest of Nikita Trofimovich Tsapko.
Prosecutor of Lyubarsky district signature /ZAGLADA/
June 23, 1941
Resolution
City of Lyubar June 22, 1941 I, authorized representative of the Lyubarsk MRO NKGB NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR VOSPENKO (?), having examined the materials on the charges against citizen TSAPKO Nikita Trofimovich, born in 1913, native and resident of the village of Gizovshchina, Lyubarsk district, no registration, citizen of the USSR, Ukrainian, literate, works as an accountant on a collective farm.
.... crimes provided for in Articles 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR, expressed in the fact that he, TSAPOK N. T. , in 1930 participated in the anti-collective farm peasant bagpipe, is hostile to the Soviet power, carries out anti-Soviet work among collective farmers, praises the fascist system of Germany, spreads various kinds of provocative rumors, and displays defeatist tendencies.
Found that the freedom of N. T. TSAPKA may influence the course of the investigation and trial.
Based on the above and guided by Articles 143, 145 and 156 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Ukrainian SSR
RESOLVED:
1. To select as a preventive measure for the methods of evading trial and investigation in relation to the accused TsAPKA Nikita Trofimovich, detention in Zhitomir prison, with assignment to the Investigative Department of the NKGB Directorate for Zhitomir Oblast.
2. This resolution shall be submitted to the Prosecutor of the Lyubarsky District.
O/authorized representative of the Lyubarsky district MRO NKGB ... state security /VOSPENKO(?)/
I approve: Chief of the Lyubarsk MRO NKGB Junior Lieutenant of State Security signature /POLISHCHUK/
Ed: in 1941 -- the urban settlement of Lyubar in the Zhitomir district of the Zhitomir region of Ukraine
004. On sending those arrested from the Lyubarsk MRO NKGB to the Zhitomir prison. Lyubar, June 25, 1941
Transcript
TO THE CHIEF OF THE ZHYTOMYR PRISON OF THE NKVD
June 25 [1941]
20/10144/2
city of Zhitomir
The Lyubarsk MRO of the NKGB requests to accept the arrested:
- PALAMARENKO Ekaterina Mikhailovna
- DANILYUK Efim Antonovich
- KRAVCHUK Leonty Terentievich
- SHESTUN Maxim Mikhailovich
- TSAPOK Nikita Trofimovich
- SLOBODSKY Ivan Markovich
for detention with their enrollment in the Investigative Department of the NKGB Directorate for the Zhitomir Region.
CHIEF OF THE LYUBARSKIY MRO NKGB ML STATE SECURITY LIEUTENANT signature /Polischuk/
ST OPERATIVE OFFICER MRO NKGB signature /Yakimchuk/
005. Certificate /open sheet/ on the arrested person. Lyubarsk MRO NKGB, June 1941
Transcript
Certificate /open sheet/ for the arrested person.
[Placed] in the Lyubarsk MRO NKGB.
1. Tsapkov Nikita Trofimovich.
2. Year of birth: 1913.
3. Where it comes from: village of Gizovshiny, Lyubarsky district.
4. Departure point: to the Zhitomir NKGB prison
5. At whose disposal should be: The Chief of the Zhitomir NKGB prison.
6. Investigative
7. Convoy type: special
8. Doctor's conclusion: healthy.
9. Signs: average height, light brown hair, grey eyes, ordinary nose.
10. Distinguishing features without a left hand.
Chief of the Lyubarsk MRO NKGB junior lieutenant of the State Security Service signature /Polischuk/
006. Search protocol. Zhitomir, June 25, 1941
Search protocol
prisoner Nikita Trofimovich Tsapkov... June 25, 1941 in Zhitomir prison No. 1 was searched by a warden.
During the search, the following items were discovered that are not permitted to be stored in the cell according to prison rules:
Money 85 rubles.
Written correctly: signature of the prisoner /Tsapkov/
Prison Assistant Warden signature
June 25, 1941
007. Form No. 3. Certificate for sending prisoner Nikita Trofimovich Tsapkov to the Novocherkassk prison, July 1941.
Name of the authority that issued the certificate: prison No. 1 of the city of Dn-sk [Dnepropetrovsk]
Certificate for personal file No. 95 for convict Nikita Trofimovich Tsapkov, born in 1913.
Destination: Novocherkassk, Voroshilovsky railway.
At whose disposal should be: Head of the prison.
Investigative.
Convoy: reinforced
Doctor's notes: healthy, can walk, has undergone sanitary treatment
Stamp on the document: Investigative Department of the NKVD of the Dnepropetrovsk region. Prison No. 1.
008. Form No. 2. Fingerprinting of prisoner Nikita Trofimovich Tsapkov. Novocherkassk, July 21, 1941.
Fingerprinting of prisoner Nikita Trofimovich Tsapkov, born in 1913, taken in the prison of the NKVD in Novocherkassk, July 21, 1941.
009. Certificate of personal file No. 18033 for a prisoner. Transfer to Ust-Kamenogorsk prison. October 10, 1941.
Certificate on personal file No. 18033 for prisoner Nikita Trofimovich Tsapkov.
1. Year of birth: 1913.
2. Specialty ___
3. Destination: Zashchita station of Tomsk railway.
4. To whom should be placed: Head of Ust-Kamenogorsk prison
5. Reason for sending: -
6. Investigative
7. By what judicial body and under what article was he convicted: Article 54
8. Convoy type: ordinary
9. Distinguishing features: -
10. Doctor's note: Healthy, has undergone sanitary treatment, no epidemic diseases.
10/X-41
The stamp at the bottom is illegible.
The triangular prison stamp at the top of the sheet is illegible.
010. Medical examination report of a corpse. Tomsk, January 9, 1942.
I approve: head of prison No. 3 of the NKVD of the Novosibirsk region
Lieutenant of State Security /BOZHOK/
ACT Medical examination of the corpse on January 9, 1942.
Based on order No. 0457 and the order of the head of prison No. 3 of the NKVD NSO, state security lieutenant BOZHOK, I, the doctor of the Pechenkina prison, in the presence of the DPN prison comrade GREBNEVA, conducted an external examination of the body of prisoner Nikita Trofimovich TSAPOK, who died in the prison hospital.
The corpse is male, of normal build, tall, with severe emaciation. The left arm is missing. Rigor mortis has set in. The integuments of the hairy parts are sharply pale, the integuments of the face and lips are pale. The mouth is closed, the tongue is behind the teeth, the neck is long, the integuments on it are pale, without damage. The chest is cylindrical, the ribs are sharply protruding outward. The abdomen is sunken, the integuments on it are pale. The genitals are normal. The openings of the nose, ears and anus are without foreign objects. The skin of the upper and lower extremities is somewhat edematous and pale. The bones are intact. No other changes were found during the external examination of the corpse. Based on the above [and the history] of the case No. 1603-191(?), the death of prisoner TSAPOK N. T. was natural [and occurred] from diarrhea and exhaustion.
Prison doctor signature /Pechenkina/
DPN prison signature /Grebnev/
