001: Volkova A.N.. Volkova Anastasia Nikolaevna. Saved documents
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Volkova Anastasia Nikolaevna, Фигурант дела / документа
A resident of the city of Tomsk. Arrested (1936), was imprisoned and exiled 1936--1944
She was born and lived in Barabinsk, Tomsk province. Her father was a traveling salesman for the Singer company, selling sewing machines in villages, and died during the Civil War. She was survived by her mother, sisters, and two brothers. During the Civil War, her older brother Pavel fought in the Red Army. After completing 9 grades with a pedagogical focus, Volkova A. N. took part in eliminating illiteracy in the village, worked as a teacher at school and at the workers' faculty. Before her arrest in 1936, she worked at school No. 15 in Novosibirsk.
She was arrested on August 26, 1936, and sent to prison in Novosibirsk. The charges were fabricated around her older brother Pavel, an engineer who was named the founder of a terrorist organization. The investigation designated Anastasia as his "accomplice." However, her brother was not arrested. In December 1936, VT SibVO was sentenced under Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 3 years of imprisonment in a labor camp and sent via the Mariinsky transit prison to the camps of Krasnoyarsk Krai. By the end of her prison term in 1939, she was transferred to Novosibirsk for a review of the sentence as "too lenient." During the review, which lasted almost a year, the prison term was increased to 5 years in a labor camp by decision of the NKVD troika and 3 years of exile was assigned. She served her sentence in a camp in Krasnoyarsk Krai where prisoners were engaged in agricultural work. After completing her term, she was not released from the camp until special orders. After the camp, there followed exile to the same Krasnoyarsk region.
After the end of her exile in 1944, she returned to her mother and sisters in Barabinsk, where she gave birth to her daughter Natalia. She survived by running a subsidiary farm; she was not accepted to work in government agencies due to her criminal record. She was rehabilitated in 1959. She lived in Tomsk with her daughter.
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001. Certificate of rehabilitation of Volkova A.N.
The certificate of rehabilitation was issued by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on July 28, 1959, No. 004934/39. The original certificate is kept in the family archive of Volkova A. N. The photocopy was made in 2012.
