Uspensky Georgy Mikhailovich

He was born in 1917 in Irkutsk to a family of a Russian nobleman, staff captain of the tsarist army M.M. Uspensky. In 1920, during the civil war, not wanting to participate in a fratricidal war, his father and his family emigrated to China, lived in Harbin in Northern Manchuria. In Harbin, Georgy graduated from school, entered college, married the daughter of a railroad worker, and in 1938 a son was born. He lived with his family at the Sartu Stepnoy station, acquired a farm, and worked as a passport officer.

After the liberation of Manchuria from the Japanese occupation forces by Soviet troops in 1945, he came to Harbin to enroll in courses at the CER. He was immediately arrested by the NKVD and, under the pretext of returning to his homeland, was taken to the Urals to the city of Verkhoturye, to a camp. A year and a half later, he was sentenced to 20 years in a special regime camp under Article 58-4-6-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. He served his sentence in Verkhoturye and Ozerlag NKVD in the Irkutsk region. In the camp, he met his younger brother Vladimir, with whom he had lost contact in childhood. He was released from the camp in April 1956. After his release, he lived at the Vikhorevka station in the Irkutsk region. He moved to Tomsk in 1972.

With the creation of the Memorial Society in Tomsk, he actively joined its work; in the early 1990s, he was the founder and first chairman of the Gulag prisoners' association at the Tomsk Memorial Society. He died on November 7, 2001.