Trifonov Andrey Mikhailovich
Resident of Leningrad, carpenter. Sentenced in 1941 to 10 years in a labor camp. Died on the way to Tomsk prison in 1941.
Born in 1902. Native and resident of Leningrad, primary education.
Family: dependent wife and 9-year-old child, lived at the address: pr. s. Smolenskogo, 69, apt. 24; mother is a pensioner, brother is disabled, sister worked at the Bolshevik plant. Did not serve in the Red Army due to illness. Worked as a carpenter at the Kaganovich wagon repair plant.
He was arrested on September 12, 1941, on charges that “at the end of August and the beginning of September 1941, he conducted counter-revolutionary agitation among the residents of the building, aimed at weakening the defense of Leningrad and slandered the combat power of the Red Army,” i.e., a crime under Article 58-10, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR.
On September 25, 1941, he was sentenced by the VT of the NKVD troops of the Leningrad region to 10 years of imprisonment in a labor camp and 3 years of deprivation of rights under Art. 58-10, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. In the order of evacuation of a stage of prisoners from Leningrad to Tomsk on November 15, 1941, only his case was delivered, however, the prisoner himself was not delivered to prison and what happened to him en route remained unknown to the management of the Tomsk prison, about which a certificate was drawn up signed by the head of the prison, Captain of State Security Vasiliev.
Source: Archival file of prisoner A.M. Trifonov // Archive of the Memorial Museum
Cases (1)
Documents (8)
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001. Personal file of the prisoner: Trifonov Andrey Mikhailovich. Title page
Prisoner's personal file
Trifonov Andrey Mikhailovich
Started --
Finished 15/XI-1941
Arch. No. 1231 (?)
Secret
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002. Personal file of the prisoner: Trifonov Andrey Mikhailovich. First page of the file
Prison No. 1 L-d [Leningrad]. Date of arrival September 14, 1941. Personal file No. 44434.
Personal file of prisoner No. __
Trifonov Andrey Mikhailovich
Stamp at the bottom:
Vaccination against typhoid fever and smallpox was carried out in T No. 1, date September 14, 1941.
Inscription above the stamp: FT
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003. Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure. Leningrad, September 12, 1941.
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"I APPROVE"
Head of 10th department of LGM (head of the RCM body)
Police Sergeant (signature) /Makarenko/
September 12, 1941
I authorize the arrest of:
September 12, 1941
PROSECUTOR of the Volodarsky district of Leningrad signature
ORDER on the selection of a preventive measure
City of Leningrad, September 12, 1941
I, Operative. Authorized 10th department. LGM police sergeant TOPБEEB,
having examined the case of anti-Soviet agitation by TRIFONOV Andrey Mikhailovich, in which TRIFONOV Andrey Mikhailovich is convicted of the fact that, while living at 69 Smolensky Ave., Apt. 24, he conducted anti-Soviet agitation among the residents of the house and distributed the contents of a fascist leaflet , that is, of a crime provided for in Articles 58-10, Part 2 of the Criminal Code, and taking into account that TRIFONOV A.M. committed a crime and it can be assumed that Trifonov may hide from the investigation and trial, and therefore, on the basis of Articles 147 and 158 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the RSFSR
DECIDED
preventive measure for methods of evading investigation and trial TRIFONOV A. M., 1902, native of Leningrad, non-party member, working at the Oktyabrsky Carriage Repair Plant named after Kaganovich, residing at 69 Smolensky Ave., apt. 24,
has passport No. 556058 series UP PS, issued by "1" 10th department of TGM,
He says he has never been sued before.
choose detention in prison No. 1, with assignment to the prosecutor of the Volodarsky district of the city of Leningrad.
Signature of the official:
Operative commissioner of the 10th detachment of the LGM, police sergeant /TORBBEYEV/
AGREE:
Deputy Chief of the 10th Department of the LGM, Police Sergeant /GODES/
The decree has been announced to me
Signature of the accused signature
Editor's note: According to the Saint Petersburg toponym directory, Smolenskogo Ave. is the avenue of the village of Smolenskogo, the name of part of today's Obukhovskoy Oborony Ave., which existed from the early 1920s until 1954.
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004. Prisoner's questionnaire. Leningrad, September 13, 1941.
The file contains 2 questionnaire cards, identical in content.
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10th Department of City Police. Criminal Investigation Department.
1-3. Trifonov Andrey Mikhailovich.
4. Year of birth: 1902.
5. Place of birth: Leningrad.
6. Address: Leningrad, Smolensky Ave., 69, apt. 24.
7. Prof. (specialist): none.
8. Place of work: Leningrad, Oktyabrsky wagon repair plant named after Kaganovich.
9. Part.: b/p.
10. Nationality: Russian.
11. Citizenship: USSR.
12. Arrested on September 12, 1941.
13. Nature of the crime: anti-Soviet agitation.
14. Articles of the Criminal Code 58-10, paragraph 2.
15. The card was completed on September 13, 1941.
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005. Form No. 2 -- fingerprinting of a prisoner. Leningrad, September 14, 1941.
The form was completed on September 14, 1941 in the 10th police department of Leningrad.
The signatures are illegible.
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006. Certificate on sending form No. 1 cards and a fingerprint card to the 1st special department of the Leningrad Regional Directorate of the NKVD. Leningrad, no record
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Reference
2 cards of form No. 1 and 2 fingerprint forms No. 2 for citizen Andrei Mikhailovich Trifonov were sent to the 1st Special Department of the Leningrad Regional Directorate of the NKVD.
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Chief of the 10th department of the Leningrad State University, police sergeant /MAKARENKOV/
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007. Verdict of the Military Tribunal. Leningrad, September 25, 1941.
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Making copies and extracts is prohibited.
Ex. No. 4
COB.CEKPETHO
Copy
case no. 450
SENTENCE #379
IN THE NAME OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
On September 25, 1941, the Military Tribunal of the NKVD troops of the USSR of the Leningrad District, in a closed court session, in the city of Leningrad, in the premises of the Military Tribunal, consisting of: presiding judge MALCHIKOV, members: Military lawyer: EFROIMSON and GERASIMOV, with secretary SHKURKO, examined case 450 on charges of --
TRIFONOV, Andrei Mikhailovich, born in 1902, native of Leningrad, from the blue-collar class, a worker who worked as a carpenter at the Kaganovich wagon repair plant before his arrest, non-party member, with a lower education, married, with a wife and a 9-year-old child in his care, has a mother who is a pensioner and lives in Leningrad, a disabled brother who lives in Leningrad, a sister who lives in Leningrad and works at the Bolshevik plant, who did not serve in the Red Army due to illness, has no previous convictions, etc., Article 58-10, Part 2 of the Criminal Code.
The materials of the preliminary and judicial investigation established that TRIFONOV, at the end of August and the beginning of September 1941, carried out counter-revolutionary agitation among the residents of the house, aimed at weakening the defense of the city of Leningrad, and slandered the combat power of the Red Army.
Based on the above, the VT found TRIFONOV guilty of committing a crime under Article 58-10, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. However, given the specific circumstances of the case and the personality of the defendant TRIFONOV, the VT does not consider it necessary to apply the highest measure of punishment to him and, guided by Articles 319 and 320 of the Criminal Procedure Code
SENTENCED:
TRIFONOV, Andrei Mikhailovich, with the application of Article 51 of the Criminal Code, shall be subject to imprisonment in a correctional labor camp for a period of TEN years, without confiscation of property, due to the absence thereof, with subsequent deprivation of rights under points: "a", "b", "c" and "r" of Article 31 of the Criminal Code for a period of three years.
The initial term of serving the sentence is considered to be 12/IX-41r. The sentence is final and cannot be appealed.
Authentic with proper signatures
CORRECT: SECRETARY OF THE VT /SHKURKO/
Print. 10 copies.
HB.
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008. A certificate issued by the head of prison No. 3 in Tomsk stating that prisoner Andrei Mikhailovich Trifonov was not delivered to prison. Tomsk, November 1941.
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REFERENCE
On November 15, 1941, as part of an evacuation from a military convoy from Leningrad, a group of prisoners arrived at Prison No. 3 in Tomsk, along with their personal prison files, including the file on prisoner Andrei Mikhailovich Trifonov, born in 1902, accused under Article 58-10, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR.
However, prisoner Trifonov was not delivered to prison, what happened to him on the way to prison is unknown and no information about him was transmitted by the convoy.
CHIEF OF PRISON #3 NKVD NSO
CAPTAIN OF STATE SECURITY - (VASILIEV)
SECRETARY.- (KRAVTSOVA)
