Soroka Mikhail Mikhailovich

Soroka Mikhail Mikhailovich

Born in 1911, Tarnopol region, p. Rotten Great; Ukrainian. Member of the Ukrainian scout organization Plast, then - the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). From 1934, he carried out the tasks of the leadership of the OUN in the Western Ukrainian lands. Arrested by the Polish authorities on January 9, 1937, sentenced to 5 years in prison. He was released in 1939. At the beginning of 1940, he entered the first year of the Faculty of Mathematics of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, while simultaneously working as a librarian in the library of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Lviv University, from March he began to study at art courses. Arrested 03/22/1940. On 05/07/1941 he was sentenced by the OSO under the NKVD of the USSR as a SOE to 8 years in labor camp. Sent to Vladivostok, and then to Vorkuta.
In Vorkuta, it was used for work in geological research. Having the opportunity to move, he took part in the formation of the underground organization "OUN-Pivnich" ("OUN-North", it is also the "Polar Wire of the OUN"), whose task was the moral and physical mutual assistance of Ukrainian prisoners. In 1948, at the end of his term, he was supposed to stay in Vorkuta for some time as a civilian, but before that he received permission to go to Lvov for two months; here he established contact with the underground leadership of the OUN (b). Then he returned to Vorkuta, where he remained until May 1949; under his leadership, OUN-Pivnich established relations with prisoners of other nationalities (Balts, Germans). In May, he again went to Lvov and was already arrested on 07/29/1949. On October 26, 1949, by the decision of a special meeting at the USSR Ministry of State Security, he was sent to a special settlement in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. 12/15/1952 arrested in connection with the disclosure of "OUN-Pivnich". 09/15/1953 by the military tribunal of the White Sea Military District, sentenced under Art. 58-1-a, 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to be shot, which on 11/30/1953 was replaced by 25 years of penitentiary. Sent to Steplag (Kazakhstan), where he was, among other things, during the uprising of prisoners. Known as the author of the words and music of the "Kengir March" - the anthem of the uprising ("At the hot steppes of Kazakhstan ...". After the suppression of the uprising, among other prisoners, he was taken to Magadan. On 16.04.1957, the military tribunal of the Carpathian military district reviewed the criminal case and canceled the decision of the OSO under the Ministry of State Security of the USSR dated 10.26.1949 due to the lack of corpus delicti and rehabilitated him in this case However, according to the verdict of 1953, he continued to serve his sentence, and he was often transferred to different places: Taishet, Sverdlovsk, Kazan, and various camps in Mordovia since 1962. In the first half of the 1960s, KGB officers took M. Soroka to Kiev, Ternopil and Lvov for two months, arranging meetings with his son and other relatives and showing him the “new life” of Soviet Ukraine, but renouncing their views from him were not obtained and he was returned to the camp.On 01/06/1967 he survived a myocardial infarction, after which he received a second disability group.He died on 06/16/1971 in camp No. 17 (Ozerny settlement) Dubravlaga, another heart attack became the direct cause of death.