Vasiliev

Evidence that Lyachin died in prison from tuberculosis in July 1943.

Transcript:

Novosibirsk Regional Court

Novosibirsk

Copy: To the Head of the Prison Department of the Novosibirsk Regional Directorate of the NKVD

To the State Security Captain, Comrade BOZHOK, Novosibirsk

We hereby enclose the death certificate for prisoner Grigory Demidovich Lyachin, who died on 25/VII-43 in the hospital of prison No. 3 in Tomsk.

Appendix: Act.

CHIEF OF PRISON No. 3 OF THE NKVD OF THE NSO

CAPTAIN OF STATE SECURITY /VASILIEV/

SECRETARY /KRAVTSOVA/

Active pulmonary tuberculosis.

Doctor's signature /Nikolaeva/

DPN prison signature /Grebnev/

List of persons:

• Lyachin Grigory Demidovich - deceased prisoner.
• Nikolaeva is the doctor who confirmed death;
• Grebnev - DPN prison;
• Vasiliev - Head of Prison No. 3 of the NKVD NSO, Captain of State Security;
• Kravtsova - secretary;
• Bozhok - Head of the prison department of the NKVD NSO, captain of the State Security.

Source information:

Typewritten text (possibly a carbon copy).

Condition: Text is difficult to read, paper is yellowed/dirty.

Notes: in the upper left corner there is a registration mark: “from 27/VII-43 / No. 757”.

The file contains a "Corpse Medical Examination Report" and a second sheet on blue paper, which is illegible. This is presumably the original document—the recording from which the typewritten copy was made. Here is a transcript of the typewritten copy of the Report.

Transcript:

"I APPROVE"

Head of Prison No. 3 of the Novosibirsk Regional Directorate of the NKVD

Captain of State Security

/Vasiliev/

ACT of medical examination of a corpse 25/VII-45

Based on order number 0457 and the order of the Head of Prison No. 3 of the Novosibirsk Regional Directorate of the NKVD, Captain of State Security Vasiliev, I, the doctor of Nikolaeva Prison, in the presence of Comrade Grebneva, the prison's DPN, conducted an external examination of the body of prisoner Grigory Demidovich LYACHIN.

The body is male, of average height, well-built, and severely emaciated. Rigor mortis has set in. The scalp is pale. The facial tissue is pale, and the labial mucosa is cyanotic. The neck is long and undamaged. The rib cage is cylindrical, with prominent ribs and retracted intercostal spaces. The upper and lower extremities are pale, and the bones are intact. The nasal, ear, and rectal openings are free of foreign objects.

Based on the above and case history number 268-13, the death of prisoner Grigory Demidovich LYACHIN was natural and occurred from active pulmonary tuberculosis.

Doctor: signature /Nikolaeva/

Prison DPN: signature /Grebnev/

List of persons:

• Lyachin Grigory Demidovich - deceased prisoner.
• Nikolaeva is the doctor who confirmed death;
• Grebnev - DPN prison;
• Vasiliev - Head of Prison No. 3 of the NKVD NSO, Captain of State Security.

Source information:

Typewritten text (possibly a carbon copy). Signatures are autographs.

Condition: Text is difficult to read, paper is yellowed/dirty.

In the upper left corner is a round coat of arms seal, the text is illegible: “... for the Novosibirsk region...”