Rudnitskaya Matryona Fedorovna
A resident of Leningrad, sentenced to 7 years in a labor camp (1942). Died in the Tomsk prison hospital (1942)
Born in 1905. Native of the village of Lukinskaya, Ustyuzhinsky District, Leningrad Region*, Russian, citizen of the USSR, from a peasant family, semi-literate. Lived in Leningrad at the address: 25 Oktyabrya Ave., Building 1/4, Apt. 12. Worked at the Order of Lenin Military Medical Institute.**
Arrested on September 24–26, 1941 by officers of the 27th department of the Leningrad city police
for distributing leaflets in apartments “during wartime in the city of Leningrad, under the guise of religious leaflets, which were essentially of revolutionary content, and which contained a threat for not distributing them.”
During the evacuation in October 1941, she was transferred as a defendant to Prison No. 3 of the Novosibirsk Regional Directorate of the NKVD (Tomsk). On June 7, 1942, by a decision of the Novosibirsk Regional Court, she was sentenced under Article 58-10, Part 2, of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to seven years' imprisonment and three years' disqualification. She died in the prison hospital on June 30, 1942. The military doctor who conducted her medical examination noted severe emaciation and muscle atrophy in her upper and lower extremities.
* At the time of birth, 1905 — village of Lukinskaya, Ustyuzhensky district, Novgorod province; now the village of Lukinskoye, Ustyuzhensky district, Vologda region. From 1927 to 1937, the Ustyuzhensky district was indeed part of the Leningrad region (in the Cherepovets okrug).
** Probably refers to the Order of Lenin Higher Naval Engineering School named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, Leningrad.
Source: Archival file of prisoner M.F. Rudnitskaya // Archive of the Memorial Museum "NKVD Investigative Prison".
