Alin Daniil Egorovich

He was born in the village of Kashtakovo, Zyryansky District, Novosibirsk Region (now Tomsk Region), into a family of farmers. From 1929 to 1937, his two uncles, grandfather and father were arrested successively. In September 1939, he, a 16-year-old schoolboy, was arrested. He was accused under paragraphs 2, 10 and 11 of Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR - preparation of an armed uprising with the aim of overthrowing the existing system in the USSR and restoring the monarchy, anti-Soviet agitation and belonging to a counter-revolutionary organization. He miraculously escaped execution. The sentence was 10 years in the camps and 5 years of disenfranchisement. He spent a long 17 years in the GULAG: he built industrial facilities in Novosibirsk, then mined gold in Kolyma. He was rehabilitated only in 1989. After his release, he lived in the Tomsk Region, worked in the forestry industry. In his last years he lived in the city of Asino in the Tomsk region. He is the author of a book of memoirs, “Not many words, but a river of grief,” published in 1997 by the Tomsk Memorial Society together with the Memorial Museum.
Chairman of the Asinovsky Memorial