Agafonov (Glyantsev) Alexander Mikhailovich

Genus. in 1920 in the village. Koreiz (Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). He lived with his grandmother in Kharkov (his parents were evacuated with P.N. Wrangel’s army). In 1927 he moved to his parents in Belgrade and received Yugoslav citizenship. After graduating from school, he studied at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Belgrade. In September 1940 - cadet of the 68th class of the Lower School of the Military Academy in Yugoslavia. I was captured. He was held in prisoner of war camps: Dedinje, Pancevo, Szekelazh, Trier, Saarbrücken, Stalag in the village of Remelfing, Lorraine. In August-September 1941 he escaped from the camp, joined the French underground, participated in sabotage at a German factory, and collected intelligence data. In July 1943 he was arrested, in January 1944 he was transferred to Buchenwald, prison number 44445. He participated in the German anti-fascist movement. He escaped from the camp and was arrested in the Soviet occupation zone. In September 1945, he was transferred to the USSR NKVD special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald, SMERSH 8A. In June 1946 he was sent to the construction of the Sheksninskaya hydroelectric power station near Rybinsk. In December 1946 he was transferred to a special settlement in Ukhtizhemlag, Komi Republic). On 05/23/1949 he was arrested, sent to an internal prison in Syktyvkar, then kept in the Lubyanka, Lefortovo and Butyrka transit prisons. Convicted by the USSR MGB as a “socially dangerous element” under Art. 7-35 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 5 years of labor camp. In June 1950 he was in OLP No. 1 Vozhaellag (Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). 03/28/1954 released under amnesty (2 months before the end of his prison term). He worked and studied at an evening school for working youth. In 1962 he received Soviet citizenship. In 1965 – 1971 studied at the Faculty of Philology of Odessa State University. He worked as a teacher in schools in Crimea. Rehabilitated on September 28, 1973 by the decision of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR. After retirement in 1981, he moved to Kolpino (Leningrad region). In 1991, after leaving to meet with comrades in the underground struggle, he decided to stay in France. In 1993, his memoirs were published in Germany (in German), and in 1998, his memoirs were published in Russia. Died 2009