Markova (Ivanova) Elena Vladimirovna
1. Interview with E.V. Markova, recorded by I. Suslova on 10/14/2010.
2. Interview with E.V. Markova, recorded by I. Suslova on December 13, 2010.
3. Biographical interview with E.V. Markova, recorded by I. Suslova on 06/07/2011.
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Markova (Ivanova) Elena Vladimirovna, репрессированный
Genus. 04/24/1923 in Kyiv. In 1929 she moved with her family to Donbass. Father, V.P. Ivanov, shot in September 1937. Mother, V.M. Ivanova (nee Koribut-Dashkevich) was arrested at the beginning of 1938. Before her mother’s release in February 1939, Elena lived with her grandmother. Before the war, the family moved to Krasnoarmeysk (Stalin, now Donetsk region), where Elena graduated from high school (1941). During the battles for the liberation of the city, she worked in a hospital. In June-August 1943, while working at the German labor exchange, she prepared fake documents for Soviet soldiers, passing them off as local residents. After the liberation of the city in September 1943, she was arrested as a fascist collaborator, but was soon released on bail due to health reasons. Arrested on 12/01/1943 while visiting the NKVD department to obtain documents necessary for admission to the university. Sentenced by the Military Tribunal of the NKVD troops on May 31, 1944 in the city of Stalino (now Donetsk) under Art. 54-1a of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR to 15 years of hard labor and 5 years of disqualification. While imprisoned in Vorkutlag, she was doing general work in coal mines (No. 9, 11/12). In 1946 transferred to OLP No. 2; worked in a mine, as a nurse, and as a teacher in a special barracks for children. On 11/30/1950 she was transferred to Special Blade No. 6 (Rechlag) to ITL mode. She worked at brick factory No. 2 (“Second Brick” OLP), as a nurse in the medical unit. In 1951, at the request of the mother, the term of imprisonment was reduced to 10 years. In the same year, she was transferred to the Zapolyarny OLP, worked as a teacher, then as a laboratory assistant in the camp Baby House. Released on November 18, 1953. In 1954 she married former prisoner A.A. Markova. She entered the Vorkuta branch of the All-Union Correspondence Polytechnic Institute (VZPI). In 1955 she was released from exile with her criminal record cleared. In 1957 she gave birth to a daughter, Inna. In 1959 she moved with her family to Moscow. Rehabilitated in 1960. Graduated from VZPI (1960), specialty - chemical technologist. Since 1962 she worked at the Scientific Council on Cybernetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1971). In 1982-1992 she worked at the All-Russian Research Institute of Automation in the non-industrial sector. She has published more than 300 scientific papers. In 1995, she headed the “Science in Vorkutlag” group at the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The group prepared for publication the collection “The Gulag Secrets of the Development of the North” (2001) and several journal articles. Author of the memoir-research “Vorkuta Notes of the Convict “E-105”” (2005) and “Once Upon a Time in the 20th Century” (2006), as well as articles of an autobiographical and scientific nature (repression of the intelligentsia in the USSR in the 1930s-1940s) . She died in Moscow on May 10, 2023.
