Uspensky Georgy Mikhailovich

He was born in 1917 in Irkutsk to a Russian nobleman, Staff Captain M.M. Uspensky of the Tsarist Army. In 1920, during the civil war, unwilling to participate in a fratricidal conflict, his father and his family emigrated to China, living in Harbin in Northern Manchuria. In Harbin, Georgy graduated from high school, entered college, married the daughter of a railroad worker, and had a son in 1938. He lived with his family at the Sartu Stepnoy station, started a farm, and worked as a passport officer.

After Manchuria was liberated from 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 home, taken to a camp in the Urals town of Verkhoturye. A year and a half later, he was sentenced to 20 years in a special-regime labor camp under Article 58-4-6-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. He served his sentence in Verkhoturye and the Ozerlag NKVD camp in the Irkutsk region. In the camp, he reunited with 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 Vikhorevka station in the Irkutsk region. He moved to Tomsk in 1972.

With the founding of the Memorial Society in Tomsk, he became actively involved in its work. In the early 1990s, he was the founder and first chairman of the Gulag Prisoners' Association within the Tomsk Memorial Society. He died on November 7, 2001.