Yachmenev Venedikt Spiridonovich

Born in 1895, in the village of Korobeynikovo, Ust-Pristansky District, Altai Krai, Russian, citizen of the USSR, from a kulak peasant family, no marriage, illiterate.

In 1930, "for participation in an anti-Soviet uprising" he was sentenced by the OGPU troika to 5 years in a labor camp. In May 1943, he was drafted by the Tomsk GVK of the Novosibirsk region, a Red Army soldier, participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic War as a company commander's orderly. He lived in Tomsk at the address Batenkova Lane, 13, Apt. 1. He did not work anywhere due to health reasons. He was married, his wife is Dyachok Praskovya Mikhailovna (according to other documents - Dashuk P. M.)

He was arrested on November 1, 1951 in Tomsk and charged with anti-Soviet agitation, i.e. a crime under Article 58-10, Part 1 and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. He was taken to the internal prison of the NKVD Directorate for the Novosibirsk Region (Tomsk) and placed in cell No. 14. During a medical examination of the arrested person on November 2, 1951, doctor Pechenkina established that the arrested Yachmenev suffered from a number of illnesses, was a group 1 invalid, and “needed inpatient treatment and outside assistance. He cannot be transported.” He was interrogated by investigators from the Tomsk Region UMBG Polkovnikov and Kozhanov. On November 10, 1951, he was sent for further detention to Prison No. 1 of the Tomsk Region UMVD Directorate for inpatient treatment in a prison hospital. He was admitted to the prison hospital in serious condition with a diagnosis of "cirrhosis of the liver, with signs of ascites." He died in the prison hospital on November 21, 1951, from increasing heart failure. The official death certificate states the diagnosis of grade 3 heart failure.

Source: Archival file of prisoner V.S. Yachmenev // Archive of the Memorial Museum "Investigative Prison of the NKVD"