Chaikin Vadim Afanasevich
Born in 1886. Member of the AKP since 1903. From peasants. I received my education on my own. Deputy of the Constituent Assembly from the Fergana district. Delegate to the 4th Congress of the AKP (November-December 1917). Elected to the AKP Central Committee at the 4th Party Congress. He headed the national commission in the Central Committee, which published theses for the propaganda work “The Constituent Assembly and the National Question” and on the federation. He left Petrograd at the beginning of 1918. He worked in Ukraine, the Caucasus and in various cities of Russia to organize the salvation of Turkestan from famine. In November 1918 he left the Central Committee. In February–March 1919, on his own initiative, he investigated the circumstances of the execution of 26 Baku commissars by British interventionists and representatives of the Trans-Caspian Provisional Government (on the night of September 20, 1918). Arrested in 1920. On February 24, 1922, the Presidium of the GPU included him in the list of Socialist Revolutionaries who, in connection with the organization of the trial in the AKP case, were charged with anti-Soviet activities. In October 1926, he served a sentence in the Suzdal political isolator on charges of counter-revolutionary activities. From June to December 1928 he was in Vyatka. In 1930 he was exiled to Tashkent, where he lived until June 1933. From January 1934 he was in Alma-Ata. Arrested in 1937 (according to other sources, arrested in 1938 in Tashkent), charged under Art. 58 part 2 of the Criminal Code, in 1941 he was imprisoned in the Oryol political isolation ward. Shot during the evacuation of the Oryol prison in the Medvedevsky forest (near Oryol) on September 11, 1941.
Documents (1)
Fund 06 / Inventory 1 / Case Зеленова (Чешихина) Наталья Васильевна
3. Vyatka. Memoirs of Zelenova (Cheshikhina) N.V. Edited by SIC "Memorial".
Stage from Kemperpunkt to Moscow.
Meeting with the author's relatives at the railway station in Moscow.
Butyrka prison, work in the prison. About the possibility of meeting with other prisoners in the prison cafeteria.
Interrogations, accusation of organizing an escape from the Solovetsky camps.
About escape plans.
Stage from Moscow to Vyatka.
Arrival in Vyatka 11/6/1928, acquaintance with the Vyatka exiles.
About correspondence with Moscow relatives.
About the place of residence in Vyatka, about earnings.
Visits of relatives to Vyatka.
About occupations in Vyatka, bibliography of local literature.
Moving to a new place of residence in Vyatka.
How did the exiles earn in Vyatka.
About the locals.
Visit of Vladimir Dobrovolsky, who escaped from exile in Narym (spring 1929).
Birth of daughter Irina (12/16/1930), serious illness of the author.
End of exile (1931), prohibition of residence in large cities.
Departure of the author from Vyatka to Nizhny Novgorod, return to Vyatka in autumn 1929.
Arrest and transfer of V. Zelenov to Nizhny Novgorod on charges of organizing a mutual benefit fund (1933), released after four and a half months of investigation.
Moving to the village of Gypsies. Village life.
Final departure from Vyatka in December 1934.
The memoirs end with a note indicating biographical information about some of the persons mentioned in the text.
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