Shkolyarenko Dmitry Yakhonovich
A peasant collective farmer, a resident of the Kyiv region. Arrested in 1941, died in Tomsk prison (1942)
Shkolyarenko Dmitry Yakhonovich was born in 1894 in the village of Korolevka, Kozhanskaya volost, Vasylkivsky district, Kiev province, and lived in the same village. In 1941, at the time of the opening of the Case, his place of residence was called: the village of Korolevka in the Kaganovichsky district of the Kyiv region of the Ukrainian SSR. Today this village is Korolivka, part of the Fastovsky district (after the reform - the territory of the Kozhanskaya amalgamated territorial community) of the Kyiv region, Ukraine. (49°59'24.1"N 29°53'56.2"E).
Nationality: Ukrainian, citizen of the USSR, originally from a poor peasant family, peasant, member of the Sverdlov collective farm, illiterate.
In the same village lived his elderly parents - Shkolyarenko Yahon Nechiporovich, 76 years old and Agafia Ivanovna, 64 years old, and his family: Shkolyarenko's wife Stepanida Petrovna, 40 years old, and children:
- son Shkolyarenko Sergei Dmitrievich, 1917, served in the Red Army;
- son Shkolyarenko Ivan Dmitrievich, 1924, worked as a shepherd;
- son Shkolyarenko Pavel Dmitrievich, 1930, student;
- Shkolyarenko's daughter Ganna Dmitrievna, born in 1916, farmer.
The order for the arrest of Shkolyarenko D. Ya. on suspicion of crimes under 54-10, Part 1, Article 1 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR (anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation) was signed by the Kyiv regional prosecutor on January 11, 1941. He was detained by a district police officer at his place of residence, in the Kaganovich district of the Kyiv region, on January 21, 1941.
Description: average height, dark blond hair with gray hair, gray or light brown eyes, “there are two wound scars on the right side of the foot on the right leg.”
He was held in custody in Kyiv Prison No. 1, assigned to the RO NKVD of the Kaganovich District, then transferred to Kyiv Prison No. 7. On March 28, 1941, he was transferred to the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor for Special Cases. The prosecutor transferred the consideration of his case to the NKGB Directorate for the Kyiv Region. The case was transferred to the regional court, but no decision was made, the case was sent for further investigation and the term of detention of the arrested person was extended until June 17, 1941. As part of the evacuation, prisoner Shkolyarenko was transferred to Prison No. 3 of the NKVD Directorate of the Novosibirsk Region in Tomsk, where he was delivered on August 15, 1941. He died on June 16, 1942 in the prison hospital.
Fates of family members :
His eldest son, Sergei Dmitrievich Shkolyarenko, was drafted into the Red Army by the Belotserkovsky RVC before the war began and served as a Red Army soldier in the 143rd Rifle Division. He was killed on January 10, 1944. He was buried in Sarny, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. (Source: TsAMO, F. 58, O. 18002, D. 73).
Presumably, his brother -- Shkolyarenko Sergei Agafonovich, born in 1905, was called up by the Bobruisk RVC on June 23, 1941, a Red Army soldier. He went missing in August 1944. (Source: TsAMO, F. 58, O. 18004, D. 605).
Presumably, the second brother Shkolyarenko Andrei Agafonovich, born in 1917, sergeant of the 91st rifle division, went missing on August 2, 1942, in the area of the village of Ozersky, Zimnikovsky district, Rostov region. (Source: TsAMO, F. 58, O. 818883, D. 217).
Source: Archival file of prisoner D.Ya. Shkolyarenko // Archive of the Memorial Museum "Investigative Prison of the NKVD"
Images: location of the village of Korolevka on a modern map of the Kyiv region; photo by Shkolyarenko D.Ya., restored from a prison photograph.
