Le Journal de la Photographie

The Great Terror The Great Terror a photographic book by Tomasz Kizny The Great Terror The Great Terror a photographic book, 1. The Condemned The Great Terror Nikolay Vasilievich Abramov Russian, born in 1890 in Lukierino village, Moscow District, primary education, foreman in kolkhoz. Arrested on 5 October 1937 Sentenced to death on 17 October 1937 Executed on 2 November 1937 The Great Terror Raisa Samuylovna Bochlen Russian Jew, born 1917 in Russian community in Harbin, China, secondary education, typewriter in The North-East Passage Administration Office. Arrested on 23 September 1937 Sentenced to death on 29 October 1937 Executed on 3 November 1937 The Great Terror Aleksandra Ivanovna Chubar Armenian, born 1903 in Artiomovsk city, Donetsk Province, Ukraine, higher education, consultant in the People’s Commissariat of Light Industry. Arrested on 4 July 1938 Sentenced to death on 28 August 1938 Executed the same day The Great Terror Aleksandr Kuzmich Lashkov Russian, born 1882 in Pskov city, higher education, chief of the laboratory at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Arrested on 1 November 1937 Sentenced to death on 10 January 1938 Executed the same day The Great Terror Aleksiey Grigoryevich Zhieltikov Russian, born 1890 in Demkino village, Riazan Province, primary education, locksmith at the Main Metro Workshops in Moscow. Arrested on 8 July 1937 Sentenced to death on 31 October 1937 Executed the following day The Great Terror The Great Terror a photographic book, 2. The topography of terror The Great Terror MOSCOW Secret police NKVD special zone “Kommunarka” Execution and burial ground of 6,500 victims © Tomasz Kizny The Great Terror TYUMEN The “Zodchye” construction company storehouses built on the mass graves of no less than 2,194 victims © Tomasz Kizny The Great Terror VICINITY OF VORKUTA The remains of an execution camp on Yun’-Yaga River. The condemned were convoyed north-east into the tundra and shot down. Total number of victims unknown © Tomasz Kizny The Great Terror VORONEZH Dubovka Woods on the outskirts of the city. Burial ground of over 8,000 victims. The human remains exhumed in 2008 © Tomasz Kizny The Great Terror The Great Terror a photographic book, 3. The eyewitnesses The Great Terror Yelizavieta Piotrovna Shatalova, born in 1928, retired primary school teacher, daughter of Piotr Pavlovich Pestrakov, a carpenter who was executed in Voronezh on 17 December 1937. His remains were exhumed in Dubovka Woods in 2007 and, together with 47 other victims, identified thanks to the decay... The Great Terror Dimitry Semionovich Sukhodolov, born in 1934, retired adviser of the Ministryof Fishing Industry, son of the unskilled worker Semion Prokopevich Sukhodolov,who was executed on 5 May 1938. Dimitry’s two uncles and cousin were shot, too.Since 1989 Dimitry Semionovich has devoted himself to memory e... The Great Terror Nelli Konstantinovna Kalinina, born in 1926, oceanographer, daughter of the outstanding aircraft designer Konstantin Aleksieyevich Kalinin, who was executed on 22 October 1938. Quotation: “He was a man of great nobility and goodness. All my life I have cried for him. Russia, this is a murdero... The Great Terror Zoya Yegorovna Kalashnikova, born in 1929, daughter of the illiterate lumberjackYegor Lavrentevich Kleshchin. She was nine when, on February 1938, an NKVD squad arrived at the remote settlement Argi-Pagi in northern Sakhalin and arrested her father and grandfather. In 1990 Zoya Kalashnikova learn...