Ryazanov Pavel

Until 1938 (from that time memories begin) he worked as a builder and studied in the evenings at a construction institute. Arrest in January 1938. Night search. Seizure of Kropotkin's Notes of a Revolutionary. Interrogation in the Lubyanka prison. Screams outside the door (Imitation of screams for intimidation?). Threats. Transfer in the "black crow" to the Taganka prison. Because of the cramped conditions, some prisoners fainted. Humiliating prison search. On the bodies of prisoners there are traces of beatings with rubber sticks. There are 120 people in the cell instead of the allowed 50. Description of the order in the prison. Consequence. The investigators are the same as in the Lubyanka prison. Beatings. Infirmary. Beginning of a hunger strike. Transfer to another, common cell. Continued hunger strike. Transfer back to solitary confinement. Night hallucinations. End of the hunger strike. Again transfer to the common cell. Description of the Taganskaya prison. The desire of people to use their free time for self-education (lectures, discussions, playing chess made from bread). Transfer to the Lubyanka to the basement cell, where people were tortured with heat. Again interrogations with beatings. Refusal to sign charges brought against other people. Rumors that Yezhov is being removed, a slight decrease in the number of beatings.
Part II. “Reality is like a wild dream. 1938-1946". Forwarding. Farewell to Moscow through the barred top of the "black crow". Pullman cars with machine guns on the roofs. Following in overcrowded cars for 23 days to Vladivostok. Vladivostok transfer. Lots of deaths. Many prisoners have night blindness from lack of vitamins. Transfer in scows to the steamer "Indigirka". The total number of people on the ship is 4,000.
Mine "Duck" 500 km from Magadan. Work in the face, then mine surveyor. Description of the terrifying "bathing" days. Work at the mines. Voroshilov, them. Gastello, at the construction of a power plant. Vain hopes for early release. Departure to the mine "Jalgala". On the way, a meeting with the Czechs, who, fleeing from the Germans, crossed the border of the USSR and asked for asylum, but were arrested and sent to Kolyma. Another stage to Magadan. Construction management. After the war, the delivery of tens of thousands of new prisoners to Kolyma. Arrival of papers for release. Delay by the authorities, who do not want to let the competent builder go.

The annotation was compiled by Zhidkova T.G.

Adler Mark Samoilovich, Babiy-Root, Barclay (Barclay) Ilya Andreevich (Mitrofanovich), Budyonny Semyon Mikhailovich, Vand Zinoviy Mikhailovich, Voroshilov Kliment Efremovich, Vysheslavtsev Sergey, Gadzhaev, Glaser, Gorky Maxim, Grigoryan, Gridasova Alexandra Romanovna, Gurevich, Dolgoruky, Yezhov Nikolay Ivanovich, effe, Zabelin Alexander, Zimin Yury Nikolaevich, Ivan "Gypsy", Izkoev, Kirov Sergey Mironovich, Kozlov, Lastochkin Alexander, Lobza Vasil, Lodygin Dmitry, Maklakov Izrail Naumovich, Margoryan, Matusevich Joseph, Nikitkin, Ordzhonikidze Grigory Konstantinovich (Sergo), Pishchulin Ivan Ivanovich, Ivy, Pryanichnikov, Rogozin Alexander Mikhailovich, Rozanov Alexey Nikolaevich, Ryazanov Pavel, Sarensky, Skripnik, Smirnov, Sokolov Yuri Nikolaevich, Steklov Vladimir Yurievich, Streltsov, Streamed, Timofeev Vladimir Alekseevich, Timoshkevich Jan Karlovich, Titov Nikolay Fedorovich, Tonshev Victor, Utevsky Mark Pavlovich, Frinovsky Mikhail Petrovich, Khokhryakov Victor, Tsarev, Scheinfeld (Sheinfeld), Yavorovsky, Yakushkin