http://www.polandinexile.com/addresses.html
Google translation:
http://lists.memo.ru/Deportees to the Soviet Union
Офис в Малом Каретном Россия, 127051, г. Москва, Малый Каретный переулок, д. 12 (only correspondence to this address)
Офис в Каретном ряду
Россия, 127006, г. Москва, ул. Каретный ряд, д. 5/10
Reception: (495) 699 11 80
Secretariat: (495) 650 78 83; (495) 609 06 94 (fax)
Group work with the regions: (495) 699 60 82; (495) 699 62 39 (fax)
Human Rights Centre: (495) 225 31 18; (495) 699 11 65 (fax)
Scientific Information and Education Centre: (495) 650 78 83
Association of victims of political repression: (495) 699 57 21, (495) 699 41 29 (tel / fax).
Email: [email protected]
http://lists.memo.ru
Google translation:
The basis for the published list was the 4th edition of the disc «The victims of political terror in the USSR."
The published lists several extended compared with the disc includes more than 2.6 million names - added to the CVs of the Book of Memory of the Sakhalin region, as well as the third volume of the book of the Autonomous Republic of memory Crimea, the preparatory work for the next volumes of the Book of Memory of the Krasnodar Territory, the 3rd volume memory Book of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, the 5th volume of the Book of memory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the 2nd volume of the Book of memory of the Novosibirsk region, the 5th volume of the Book of memory of the Sverdlovsk region. Total number of names added - about 30 thousand.
The fourth edition of the database "victims of political terror in the USSR" was carried out in the year of the 70th anniversary of the Great Terror - the most violent campaigns and massacres in the country's history. Then for two years (1937-1938) on political charges has been arrested more than 1 million 700 thousand people, and at least 725,000 of them were shot - an average daily state killed thousands of its citizens. But the Great Terror - this is only one, albeit the most bloody terrorist campaign of Soviet power. In a somewhat smaller scale, with less cruelty of such crimes were committed throughout the seventy years - since the October Revolution, the 90th anniversary of which falls on those days when out in the light of our drive.
It would seem that after getting rid of the communist regime in our people is no more important task than to understand the causes and to realize the scale of the disaster has befallen us - not the plague, not a plague, and a humanitarian disaster, the created with his own hands. A necessary condition for this task is the full restoration of the memory of the terror, the details of which were hushed up and hidden for decades. And, in particular, - the perpetuation of the memory of the victims.
This work is really underway for nearly two decades. The results, however, not very encouraging.
Instead of monuments to victims of political repression, which was supposed to erect, in most cases, still are the foundation stone, set at the turn of 1980-1990-ies.
It does not set up in the Russian national museum of political repression. And in the expositions of regional local history museums theme of repression and if given a place, it is usually the smallest.
On the plaque installed in honor of those of our eminent fellow citizens who were shot or died in the camps, there is no mention of any of their tragic death.
Identified and marked by memorable characters, only a small part of the mass graves of those executed. And thousands of cemeteries near kogdatoshnih camps and trudposelkov lost forever: they turned into wasteland, cultivation, forest thickets, in their place built new residential areas or industrial complexes. Until now, millions of people do not know where buried their parents, grandfathers and great grandfathers.
But perhaps the most important of the debts did not give us - it is the names of victims.
It was bequeathed "to name all the names." This task is even today far from fulfillment.
In different regions of the former Soviet Union is prepared and published a book of memory of victims of political repression. The main contents of these books - brief biographical information about the shot, sent to labor camps, forcibly deported trudposelki mobilized in labor army. These certificates are needed hundreds of thousands of people in our country and in other countries where our compatriots live, in order to find at least some information about the fate of relatives. They need historians, ethnographers, teachers, journalists. But even if a person's biography is included in some of the memory book, it is very difficult to know: these books are published usually small circulation (from 100 to 1,000 copies), and in the sale of almost come. Even in the major libraries of Russia do not have a complete set of published martyrology.
In order to preserve the memory of the victims and to help people to reconstruct the history of their families, the Society "Memorial" in 1998 embarked on the creation of a single database, bringing together information from regional memory books, already published in the light or just prepared for publication. The results of this work, supplemented by information from several other sources, and constitute the main content of the resource.
To be clear, whose names may appear in these lists, we will remind about the basic, the most broad categories of victims of political repression in the Soviet Union.