Faynut Mira Alexandrovna
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Faynut Mira Alexandrovna
Genus. 12/30/1907 in Gomel. At the time of her arrest, she was a 3rd year student at the Leningrad Institute of Catering Engineers. Arrested in Leningrad on 02/04/1935, sentenced by the resolution of the OS NKVD of the USSR on 02/05/1935 to 4 years of exile, sent to Yakutsk. In 1936 she married the exiled P.S. Ivanov. After the arrest of her husband, she was sentenced by resolution of the NKVD OS of June 26, 1937 (KRDD) to 5 years in labor camp, but was not arrested, because was in the last stages of pregnancy. She gave birth to a daughter, Anna, on August 31, 1937. Due to lack of funds and work, she filed an application with the NKVD asking for arrest. Arrested on 04/05/1938 and sent to USVITL. The daughter died on November 10, 1938 in the Vladivostok transit camp from pneumonia. M.A. Faynut was transported to Kolyma in May 1939 and was imprisoned at the Elgen camp (Kolyma Experimental Agricultural Station). Since 1942 she worked at a food processing plant in the village. Taskan Yagodninsky district. By resolution of the OS NKVD dated March 8, 1947, she was sentenced to 4 years of exile. In exile in the Magadan region. Released on 03/08/1951 after serving her term of exile. Rehabilitated by the Leningrad City Court on February 21, 1958. In 1958 she returned to Leningrad, a disabled person of the 3rd group, a pensioner. In 1989 she wrote the memoirs “Afterword to E. Ginzburg’s Steep Route.” Member of the Memorial Society since 1989. Died in St. Petersburg on April 23, 2002.
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1. Afterword to “Steep Route” by E.S. Ginsburg, written in 1989
Very brief information about yourself. Murder of S.M. Kirov. Expulsion from the Komsomol for failure to attend a meeting regarding the murder (she was ill). A few months later, in February 1935, the apartment was searched. There are forbidden Discussion Papers in the older brother's room. Taking the brother's blame. Arrest of the author and the husband of one of the sisters. Prison "Crosses". The sentence is exile to four years in Yakutsk. Two-month stage by train. Carriage life. The route on foot and on horseback to Yakutsk. Meeting with my sister and her two-year-old son. Work as an accountant. Meeting with a Leningrader I knew from prison. Marriage. Seeing off my husband on his way to Kolyma. Birth of a daughter. Help from the exiled Mostovsky I.V. Inability to get a job. Application with a request to take her and the child to prison due to lack of means of subsistence. Jail. Unfulfilled hopes of meeting my husband. Thoughts that he was shot. The new term is 5 years in Kolyma. During the stage, the death of the daughter. Wintering in a barracks. Hospital. Help from a hospital doctor from Leningrad. After the end of the five-year period, the stay in the camp is for another five years. Liberation in July 1947, then another four years in exile. Words of gratitude to the people who helped the author survive.
The abstract was compiled by T.G. Zhidkova.
