Kasatkina-Opeskina Mina Germanovna

Definition: Musician, member of the RSDLP(M)
Years of life: 1903-1973
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Born in Odessa; Jewish; member of the RSDLP(M) since 1920. In 1920–1923 – student of the Odessa Conservatory, piano class. Arrested on charges of membership in the Menshevik Party; sentenced to 2 years in labor camp, until 1925 she was in the Solovetsky camp. Participated in camp amateur activities. In 1925 she was transferred from Solovki to the Verkhneuralsk political isolation ward. Since 1925 - in exile in Pishkek (now Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). Arrested in 1927, sentenced to exile in Ust-Usolsk (now Syktyvkar) for 3 years. Since 1929 she lived in Frunze, worked as a pianist on the radio and as an accompanist in the theater. In August 1937 she was arrested and sentenced under Art. 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years of labor camp; served her sentence in Usollag, Molotov region, worked as a statistician in planning departments; released in 1947. After liberation, she lived in Solikamsk and worked as a music teacher in an orphanage. Arrested in 1949; sentenced by the OSO at the USSR MGB on 02/09/1949 under Art. 58-10 part 1 and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for belonging to a Menshevik organization and indefinite exile to a settlement in the village of Motygino, Udereisky district, Krasnoyarsk Territory. She worked as a receptionist in a hospital, from where she was fired on the instructions of the local Ministry of State Security; then - as a music worker in kindergartens. On 10/05/1954 she was released from exile, moved to Moscow, and worked as a music worker in kindergartens. She died in 1973.
Info:
"Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы" [Электрон. ресурс]. URL: https://vgulage.name/ (дата обращения: 2010 - 2024 гг.).
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Касаткин Л. История одной семьи // Новый мир. 2016. №3. С.9.

Documents (2)

Fund 016 / Inventory 1 / Case 22
25. Letter from the National Security Service (Milliy havfsizlik hizmati) of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 10/1496 dated 06/25/2001 to the director of the Memorial Research Center V.V. Iofe (response to request No. 256 dated 05/02/2001) with archival information about I.A. Blinderman, Elman R.L., Drabkine V.M., Ber-Gurevich B.N., Rezule Ya.G., Levin-Aronov A.B., Grigoriev R.G., Levin A.G., Buhanevich A.I. ., Nazariev-Pavlov M.F., Rosenberg V.A., Selbst F.Z., Sokolovskaya V.I., Stern E.L., Arkavina V.Ya., Faermarke F.E., Burovtseva A.I. ., Gureviche E.N., Abramovich L.E. and Opeskina M.G.
Fund 016 / Inventory 1 / Case 6
36. Letter of the SBU for the Odessa region No. 383 (out. No. 10/1000) dated 09.09.1998 to the director of the Memorial Research Center Iof V.V. (response to request No. 146 of 08/06/1998) with archival references to N.G. Zeiliger, Z.I. Zolotarev, G.I. Itselis, M.G. Opeskina, E.L.