Tsapko Nikita Trofimovich
Accountant of a collective farm in the Zhitomir region. Arrested by the NKVD on June 22, 1941, died in a prison hospital in Tomsk on January 9, 1942
Born in 1913. A native and resident of the village of Gizovshiny, Lyubarsky district, Zhitomir region, Ukrainian, collective farm accountant. Disabled (missing left arm). Distinguishing features: height above average, light brown hair, gray eyes.
He was arrested on June 22, 1941 by employees of the Lyubarsk RO NKGB on charges of conducting "anti-Soviet agitation among collective farmers, praising the fascist system of Germany, spreading various kinds of provocative rumors and demonstrating defeatist tendencies" , i.e. a crime under Art. 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR. From the Lyubarsk prison, as a person under investigation for the NKGB Directorate of the Zhitomir Region, he was sent on June 25, 1941 to the Zhitomir Prison, then to the Dnepropetrovsk Prison, from there on July 21, 1941 to the Novocherkassk Prison, then transferred to the Ust-Kamenogorsk Prison, and then further to the east of the country. At the end of 1941, he ended up in Prison No. 3 of the NKVD Directorate of the Novosibirsk Region (Tomsk), where he died on January 9, 1942 in the prison hospital. The prison doctor's death certificate stated that the cause of death was "natural and resulted from diarrhea and exhaustion."
Source: Archival file of prisoner of Tomsk prison N.T. Tsapko // Archive of the Memorial Museum.
