Heroes of the NKVD: Colonel Garanin. Magadan and Kolyma - The main news information portal A man in 1919 named Garanin

Was born in Belarus. He graduated from a rural school. From the age of 17 I went to work. Was drafted into the tsarist army, the last rank before the October Revolution - non-commissioned officer.

The name of Garanin is associated with massive illegal repressions in the camps of "Dalstroy", called "Garanin". However, no documentary confirmation of the facts of the use of illegal repressions by S.N. Garanin was found.

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• Batsaev I. D., Kozlov A. G. Dalstroy and Sevvostlag of the NKVD of the USSR in figures and documents: In 2 parts, Part 1 (1931-1941). - Magadan: SVKNII FEB RAS, 2002 .-- P. 350 .-- ISBN 5-94729-006-5.
• Biryukov A.M. Implementation of order No. 00447 in Kolyma. To the origins of the "Garanin". Materials of the scientific-practical conference... "Kolyma.ru". Archived from the original on May 11, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2010.

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After the notorious Hollywood movie "Schindler's List" by Spielberg, many learned about the camp commandant - Amon Goethe.
However, few people know that a similar character was in the Gulag. True, no films have been made about this. His name was Colonel of the NKVD Stepan Nikolayevich Garanin. Head of the North-East forced labor camps (Kolyma) in 1937-38

Like Plashuv, Sevvostlag was created to supply various enterprises with labor.
In Plaszow there were 150,000 convicts, in Sevvostlag in 1938 there were about 100 thousand. In Plaszow, 9000 people died in 2 years, in Sevvostlag in 1937-38. only 26 thousand people were shot, not counting deaths for other reasons.

Goeth began his day by going out onto the balcony. And Garanin jumped into the car and rushed around the camps to inspect. He came, walked with a pistol, and killed every day. Personally. For failure to comply with the norms, for refusing to work, for an incomplete wheelbarrow with ore. Or just in the mood, drunk, for no reason. Witnesses recall the glassy, ​​hateful eyes of the colonel, a member of the CPSU (b) since 1919.

Here are the materials of the conference on the Garanin terror in Kolyma:
http://www.kolyma.ru/magadan/index.php?newsid=392

Krutikova-Okushko is in the catalog of the State Publishing House. history. libraries of Russia (apparently as part of a collection of memoirs of different people about Kolyma):
http://katalog.shpl.ru/shrubr.php?rid=19365&base=shpl_syst&rbase=rgpib

From the memoirs of the prisoner Nikolai Vovnyak:
“I got to the Kolyma in December 1937. We were fed a gruel - a few grains of millet in the water. We were taking out the waste rock from the bottom of the quarries in wheelbarrows. ... It often happened that the head of USVITL, Colonel Garanin, came to the camp for a check. During the round, he selected convicts from among those who worked hard. Usually, he collected about 10 people. He would take them to the quarry, pull out a pistol and shoot them with his own hands. rattling tractor.
... Once, while walking around, he stepped on a shovel. And then, whether a handle hit, or something else happened .. Garanin lined up a brigade and quietly asks: "Whose shovel?" In response, silence. Then he says: "I will shoot every fifth until you confess." I killed two. The line reached the third, then the prisoner went out of order and confessed. He immediately shot at him. That was such a "release".

From the memoirs of prisoner Alexei Yarotsky:
"Garanin ... after a mass public execution at the Maldyak mine in the summer, when he was divorced, he asked: who refuses to work? And one" cross " [this is how the sectarian convicts were called in Kolyma]went forward, crossed himself and said: "You demon, servant of antichrist." And Garanin shot him right there in front of the formation ... "

By the way, the designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was among the prisoners of the Maldyak mine.

From the memoirs of the prisoner Nadezhda Ioffe:

“Once our Lida, who always knew everything, said that a 'big boss' had arrived at the camp - the new head of USVITLag, Colonel Garanin ... Garanin was standing near the checkpoint. We passed close, and I saw him. as if they were glass - through them. A group of prisoners stood in the courtyard. We stopped at the door of the dining room, I looked around. "Citizen boss, I am very sick, I ask - let them be transferred to an easier job, I ask ..." He seemed to say something else, but he was no longer heard. realized that he was pulling a pistol out of its holster. "You don't want to work ... mother ... mother-mother ..." And he fired point-blank. The man fell. "

From the memoirs of prisoner Galina Krutikova-Okushko:
".. Garanin drove along the highway ... When Garanin drove by and saw the site, unevenly cleared, the whole brigade was going to be shot ..."

Solzhenitsyn on the Serpantinka death camp in Kolyma:
... every day 30-50 people were shot under a canopy near the isolation ward ... The brutalization of the Kolyma regime was outwardly marked by the fact that Garanin was appointed the head of the USVITLag (Administration of the North-Eastern camps), and the head of Dalstroy instead of the divisional commander of Latvian riflemen E. Berzin - Pavlov ... Then the last weekend was canceled (for the Fifty-eighth) ... the summer working day was brought to 14 o'clock, frosts at 45 and 50 degrees were recognized as fit for work, the day was allowed to be "activated" only from 55 degrees. At the arbitrary discretion of individual chiefs, they were taken out even at 60 .... But all of this turned out to be not enough, it was still insufficiently secured, the number of prisoners was still insufficiently reduced. And began "Garanin executions", direct murders. Sometimes under a tractor rumble, sometimes without ...

In 1938, Garanin, as was usual then, was himself declared a spy, and went to the camps. He died in Pechorlag in 1950.

Stepan Nikolayevich Garanin, (1898-1950), was born in Belarus into a peasant family. The exact place of his birth is unknown, and his personal data are incomplete. Nationality Russian. Education - secondary. Member of the First World War, for his bravery was promoted to non-commissioned officers. In 1918, after the collapse of the tsarist army, Garanin joined the Red Army, and in 1919. - to the Bolshevik Party. He fought on the South, then on the Polish front, in 1920-1921. was held captive by the Poles, from where he was released after the conclusion of the Riga Peace in March 1921. in the organs of the Cheka - since 1922: for a long time he served in the border troops. His career was hampered by the class origin of his wife: she was from the "kulaks", and, moreover, Garanin entered into marriage with her after the Civil War: this suggests that SN Garanin did not take the communist ideology seriously. Garanin was severely reprimanded "for being in touch with an alien element." Probably as a punishment, in December 1937. SN Garanin was sent to work in the Kolyma - as the head of the Sevvostlag, which was part of the "Dalstroy" system of the NKVD of the USSR. The name of S. Garanin is associated with the so-called "Garanin executions": mass executions of prisoners in 1938. - for failure to comply with production standards, for "disobedience" to the administration, as well as - in the order of "rejection" of "active enemies of the Soviet regime", the sick, the elderly and the weak. All this was done with the consent of the person whose own family suffered from lawlessness and arbitrariness, and who himself almost went after her to Kotlas as a prisoner. Soon after arriving in Kolyma, Garanin began to drink heavily, while drunk he himself could shoot not only the prisoner, but also someone from the guard: he ceased to control his actions. There were many terrible rumors about Garanin's behavior. They said that one of Garanin's "entertainment" was to invite one of the prisoners from among the intelligentsia or aristocracy, talk about "high matters", treat him to a good dinner, and then shoot him. Memories of this kind belong to V.T.Shalamov, A.S. Yarotsky, N.A. Ioffe, G.A. Okushko, and other prisoners; a number of such stories are cited by A.I.Solzhenitsyn. However, it should be noted that SN Garanin was not a member of the NKVD troika for Dalstroy and did not make formal decisions on executions. For this there were other people: investigators V.M.Speransky, K.A. Pavlov, L, P. Metelev, M.P. Kononovich, M.E. Katsenelenbogen, S.M., Bronstein, L A.Vinnitsky, for the period from December 1937 to November 1938. considered 10734 cases and passed 5801 death sentences. These persons used torture to obtain "evidence", and S.N. Garanin did not interfere with them, although he had the right and authority to do so. In total, during the "work" of S.N. Garanin in Sevvostlag, about 26,000 prisoners died - mainly from frostbite, hunger and backbreaking work, as well as from an almost complete lack of medical care. This number does not include prisoners killed by guards, for example, “while trying to escape,” and those killed by criminals who were incited by the administration against “political” ones. However, by the end of the "Garanin era" the situation of the criminals worsened: refusal to work was followed by a transfer to a "political" article: "counter-revolutionary sabotage", with a death penalty.

The executions were carried out mainly on the outskirts of Magadan, at Serpantinka, and at the Maldyak mine. Only August 13, 1938. 159 people were executed at the Maldyak mine; the name of the executioner is known: A.I. Garusov. NKVD officers Kuzmenkov, Kedrov, Deroberti, Melnikov and others also actively participated in the executions.

In September 1938. SN Garanin was arrested and soon sentenced to 8 years in prison. He was not shot, since the leadership of the NKVD was changing, and many who caught this moment were lucky to stay alive. Garanin was serving his sentence in the Pechersk ITL. During the war, many prisoners were automatically extended their sentences, and so did Garanin. In July 1950. S.N. Garanin died in the camp.

In February 1990. SN Garanin was rehabilitated on formal grounds: the USSR Prosecutor's Office came to the conclusion that the charges brought against Garanin “of espionage in favor of Poland” do not correspond to reality. " The documents on Garanin's involvement in the illegal executions of prisoners were considered "insufficient", since "there is no signature on the execution lists." It should be recalled that in the verdict in the case of S.N. Garanin in 1939. he was mainly accused of unreasonable repression, cruel treatment of prisoners, sanctioning torture. Many witnesses were interviewed, whose testimony, in any case, needs an explanation, and the USSR Prosecutor's Office brushed them off the threshold.
Zalessky K.A. Who is who in Stalin's empire. M., 2000.

Meta V.I., Didenko V.V. Victims of Kolyma. Documentary sketches. Magadan, 2000.

Kozlov A.P. G. Magadan: a synopsis of the past. Magadan, 1989.

Shalamov V.T. Kolyma stories. M., 1991.

Solzhenitsyn A.I. GULAG Archipelago. T.2. M., 1991.

It would not be superfluous to note the further fate of these figures: M.P. Speransky was shot on April 8, 1940, M.E., Katselenbogen - on July 7, 1941, K.A. Pavlov - in October 1941, Others were sentenced to long terms and died in conclusion.

Batsaev I.D., Kozlov A.G. Dalstroy and Sevvostlag of the NKVD of the USSR in figures and documents. In 2 volumes. Magadan, 2002.

Information of this kind is contained, in particular, in the book by R. Conquest "The Great Terror", M., 1991, book 2. Unfortunately, Conquest automatically "counts" all the listed categories of the dead as "executed". The same inaccuracy is admitted by J.Rossi in his "Guide to the Gulag".

Batsaev I.D., Kozlov A.G. decree op.

The investigation into the case of S.N. Garanin was conducted personally by L.P. Beria, B.Z.Kobulov, and later - L.E. Vlodzimirsky. The investigative materials of the case of Garanin and his accomplices can serve as a model of good faith for today's lawyers (not counting, of course, the duty "stamp" about "espionage").

Thanks to Steven Spielberg and Hollywood, the whole world recognized the name of Amon Goeth.
However, few people know that such a character was in the Stalinist Gulag. Unfortunately, no films have been made about this. His name was Colonel of the NKVD Stepan Nikolayevich Garanin. Head of the North-East forced labor camps (Kolyma) in 1937-38

Like Plashuv, Sevvostlag was created to supply various enterprises with labor.
In Plaszow there were 150,000 convicts, in Sevvostlag in 1938 about 100 thousand. In Plaszow, 9000 people died in 2 years, in Sevvostlag in 1937-38. only 26 thousand people were shot, not counting deaths for other reasons.

Goeth began his day by going out onto the balcony. And Garanin jumped into the car and rushed around the camps to inspect. He came, walked with a pistol, and killed every day. Personally. For failure to comply with the norms, for refusing to work, for an incomplete wheelbarrow with ore. Or just in the mood, drunk, for no reason. Witnesses recall the glassy, ​​hateful eyes of the colonel, a member of the CPSU (b) since 1919.

Here are the materials of the conference on the Garanin terror in Kolyma:
http://www.kolyma.ru/magadan/index.php?newsid=392

Krutikova-Okushko is in the catalog of the State Publishing House. history. libraries of Russia (apparently as part of a collection of memoirs of different people about Kolyma):
http://katalog.shpl.ru/shrubr.php?rid=19365&base=shpl_syst&rbase=rgpib

From the memoirs of the prisoner Nikolai Vovnyak:
“I got to the Kolyma in December 1937. We were fed a gruel - a few grains of millet in the water. We were taking out the waste rock from the bottom of the quarries in wheelbarrows. ... It often happened that the head of USVITL, a certain Garanin, came to the camp for a check. During the round, he selected convicts from among those who worked hard. Usually, he collected about 10 people. He would take them to the quarry, pull out a pistol and shoot them with his own hands. rattling tractor.
... Once, while walking around, he stepped on a shovel. And then, whether a handle hit, or something else happened .. Garanin lined up a brigade and quietly asks: "Whose shovel?" In response, silence. Then he says: "I will shoot every fifth until you confess." I killed two. The line reached the third, then the prisoner went out of order and confessed. He immediately shot at him. That was such a "release".

From the memoirs of prisoner Alexei Yarotsky:
"Garanin ... after a mass public execution at the Maldyak mine in the summer, when he was divorced, he asked: who refuses to work? And one" cross " [this is how the sectarian convicts were called in Kolyma]went forward, crossed himself and said: "You demon, servant of antichrist." And Garanin shot him right there in front of the formation ... "

By the way, the designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was among the prisoners of the Maldyak mine.

From the memoirs of the prisoner Nadezhda Ioffe:

“Once our Lida, who always knew everything, said that a 'big boss' had arrived at the camp - the new head of USVITLag, Colonel Garanin ... Garanin was standing near the checkpoint. We passed close, and I saw him. as if they were glass - through them. A group of prisoners stood in the courtyard. We stopped at the door of the dining room, I looked around. "Citizen boss, I am very sick, I ask - let them be transferred to an easier job, I ask ..." He seemed to say something else, but he was no longer heard. realized that he was pulling a pistol from its holster. "You don't want to work ... mother ... mother-mother ..." And he shot at point-blank range. The man fell. "

From the memoirs of prisoner Galina Krutikova-Okushko:
".. Garanin drove along the highway ... When Garanin drove by and saw the site, unevenly cleared, the whole brigade was going to be shot ..."

Solzhenitsyn on the Serpantinka death camp in Kolyma:
... every day 30-50 people were shot under a canopy near the isolation ward ... The brutalization of the Kolyma regime was outwardly marked by the fact that Garanin was appointed the head of the USVITLag (Directorate of the North-Eastern camps), and the head of Dalstroy instead of the divisional commander of Latvian riflemen E. Berzin - Pavlov ... Then the last weekend was canceled (for the Fifty-eighth) ... the summer working day was brought to 14 o'clock, frosts at 45 and 50 degrees were recognized as fit for work, the day was allowed to be "activated" only from 55 degrees. At the arbitrary discretion of individual chiefs, they were taken out even at 60 .... But all of this turned out to be not enough, it was still insufficiently secured, the number of prisoners was still insufficiently reduced. And began "Garanin executions", direct murders. Sometimes under a tractor rumble, sometimes without ...

In 1938, Garanin, as was usual then, was himself declared a spy, and went to the camps. He died in Pechorlag in 1950.

Garanin Stepan Nikolaevich(December 12, 1898 - July 3, 1950) - Colonel, in 1937-1938 - Head of the North-East Forced Labor Camp.

Was born in Belarus. He graduated from a rural school. From the age of 17 I went to work. Was drafted into the tsarist army, the last rank before the October Revolution - non-commissioned officer.

Since 1918 - in the Red Army.

In January 1919 he joined the RCP (b).

Member of the Civil War, took part in the battles with Denikin. From September 1, 1920 to May 1921, he was held captive by the White Poles, and fled.

After returning from captivity, he graduated from the Higher Border School, served in border units, until October 1937 he was the head of the 15th border detachment in Belarus. He was awarded the badge of the Honorary Worker of the Cheka-OGPU, a diploma from the Central Executive Committee of the BSSR, and military weapons.

The parents of Garanin's wife were numbered among the kulaks and deported to Kotlas. Before leaving for Kolyma, Garanin wrote in his questionnaire: "He was severely reprimanded for contact with an alien element in 1935" .

The name of Garanin is associated with massive illegal repressions in the camps of "Dalstroy", called "Garanin". However, no documentary confirmation of the facts of the use of illegal repressions by S.N. Garanin was found.

Arrested on September 27, 1938. On May 30, 1939, he was convoyed to Moscow and placed in the Sukhanovskaya prison. By a special meeting of the NKVD of the USSR on January 17, 1940, he was sentenced to 8 years in forced labor camps (ITL). Later, the term of detention in the camp was extended.

On July 3, 1989, officers of the investigative department of the KGB of the USSR came to the conclusion that S.N. Garanin “Falls within the scope of Art. 1 of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 16, 1989 "On additional measures to restore justice in relation to the victims of repressions that took place in the period 30-40s and early 50s" "... On February 6, 1990, the said opinion in relation to S.N. Garanin was approved by the deputy head of the Department for Supervision over the Execution of Laws on State Security, Interethnic and International Legal Issues of the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR L.F.Kosmarskaya. Thus, SN Garanin was posthumously rehabilitated.

"Garaninshchyna"- the period of massive unjustified repressions in 1937-1938. in Kolyma, associated with the name of the head of the North-Eastern correctional labor camp (Sevvostlag) of that time - Colonel S. N. Garanin.

In the history of Sevvostlag and "Dalstroy" as a whole, the period of the end of 1937-1938. was the most violent. It was characterized by massive repressions, deaths of prisoners from exhaustion and disease, executions of "counter-revolutionaries", "enemies of the people", "saboteurs".

The beginning of this period of the so-called "mass operations" is associated with the June (1937) Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, which granted extraordinary powers to the NKVD. On July 2, 1937, the Politburo adopted a resolution "On anti-Soviet elements." The decision, in particular, stated: “It has been noticed that most of the former kulaks and criminals, who were expelled at one time from different regions to the northern and Siberian regions, and then after the expiry of the expiry of the expulsion of those who returned to their regions, are the main instigators of all kinds of anti-Soviet and sabotage crimes, as in collective farms, state farms, and in transport and in some industries "... On this basis, the party organs were entrusted with “Register all the kulaks and criminals who returned to their homeland so that the most hostile of them were immediately arrested and shot in the order of administrative conduct of their affairs through troikas, and the rest of the less active, but still hostile elements would be rewritten and sent to areas as directed by the NKVD " .

On July 30, 1937, Deputy People's Commissar of the NKVD of the USSR N.I. anti-Soviet elements ”. On July 31, the order was approved, and on August 1, 1937, a telegram was received in Magadan demanding the immediate execution of the verdict of the Far Eastern Regional Court in Sevvostlag and Dalstroy of March 1-18, 1937 over the leaders of the so-called. "Counter-revolutionary Trotskyist center in Kolyma." The next day, the sentence was carried out, as indicated in the enforcement act:

Organized in accordance with the directives received by the "troika" of the NKVD on "Dalstroy" until the beginning of December 1937, cases of about 3000 people were considered, in which the "troika" issued 2428 execution sentences (some of them were not executed).

On December 1, 1937, KA Pavlov, a senior major of state security, arrived in Magadan from Moscow to replace the director of Dalstroy, E.P. Berzin, who was going on vacation. Almost simultaneously with Pavlov, they arrived and took office: deputy. director of the trust brigade commander A. A. Khodyrev, head of the political department of the trust, regimental commissar Yu. M. Gaupshtein (replaced by BA Bulygin), head of the UNKVD for "Dalstroy" Art. State security lieutenant V. M. Speransky, head of the Sevvostlag of the NKVD Colonel S. N. Garanin (replaced I. G. Filippov),. After the transfer of affairs to Pavlov, Berzin left for Moscow and on December 19, 1937 was arrested at the Aleksandrov station as the organizer and leader of the "Kolyma anti-Soviet, espionage, insurgent-terrorist, sabotage organization."

By mid-December, the so-called "Moscow" special brigade of the NKVD of the USSR, consisting of four security officers: the captain of state security M. P. Kononovich, Art. Lieutenant of State Security M.E. Katsenelenbogen (Bogen), Lieutenants of State Security S.M. Bronstein and L.A. Vinitsky. Although formally the brigade was subordinate to Speransky, head of the Dalstroy NKVD, in fact, KA Pavlov was in charge of its work.

Using the methods of falsification, provocation and direct physical pressure, the "Moscow" brigade worked out the case of the "Kolyma anti-Soviet, espionage, insurgent-terrorist, sabotage organization", which was allegedly organized and headed by the former director of "Dalstroy" E.P. Berzin. In this case, among the others, on December 17, 1937, the former head of the Sevvostlag I. G. Filippov was arrested. Within a few days, he gave the following testimony:

In the "Information on the case of an anti-Soviet espionage, terrorist-insurgent, sabotage organization uncovered in Kolyma", signed on June 4, 1938 by the head of the Dalstroy NKVD, V.M.Speransky, the following data were given: civilians were repressed - 285 people, among whom were identified 150 spies, working for 12 intelligence services, including: Japanese - 52 people, German - 35, Polish - 21, Italian and Lithuanian intelligence - 2 people each. The Help also noted that "... in the border zone of the Okhotsk coast, the organization's Japanese spy network of 116 people was eliminated", including: 54 kulaks, 17 clergymen, 11 former gendarmes and policemen, 3 clan princes, etc. All were repressed according to the 1st category, that is, they were shot. In addition, the "Help" stated that already "3302 prisoners were arrested and convicted"... This number included: "Trotskyists and rightists - 60%, spies, terrorists, saboteurs and other counter-revolutionaries - 35%, bandits and thieves - 5%" .

From December 16, 1937 to November 15, 1938, the "troika" of the NKVD for "Dalstroy" in the second composition (K. A. Pavlov, V. M. Speransky, L. P. Metelev or M. P. Kononovich) considered 10 734 cases. Based on the minutes of its meetings, 5801 people were shot. Thus, the total number of deaths in more than a year of the activities of the "troika" of the NKVD in "Dalstroy" in two trains was at least 8000 people, including the civilian employees of "Dalstroy". However, the overwhelming majority of the execution actions of the "troika" of the UNKVD on "Dalstroy" in the period 1937-1938. was directed against the prisoners of Sevvostlag (some of whom were rehabilitated at a later time).

The executions of prisoners were carried out in Magadan, on the so-called Serpantinka (not far from Khatynnakh), on "Maldyak" and some other mines of "Dalstroy". So, on August 13, 1938 at the "Maldyak" mine, 159 people were shot in two acts. The bodies of all those shot were then "Buried in the ground in the area of ​​the 3rd business trip of the" Maldyak "mine"... A.I. Garusov, an employee of the NKVD regional department for the SGPU, who took direct part in the execution, later testified:

However, Solzhenitsyn could only report the following about Garanin's personal role in what was happening and the place of the head of Sevvostlag in the repressive mechanism of Dalstroy:

Based on the prevailing opinion about Garanin as a “executioner” and “bloody sadist,” Soviet, Russian and foreign historians, in particular, Roy Medvedev and Robert Conquest, began to take an uncritical and unfounded position towards him. Thus, the author of the study "The Great Terror" R. Conquest generally ascribes to S. N. Garanin the position of K. A. Pavlov: “Berzin was replaced by Garanin, who opened a campaign of terror in Kolyma, manic even on the scale of the NKVD. The Garanin region was marked by torture and executions. In the special camp Serpantinka alone, Garanin shot about twenty-six thousand people in 1938 ",. A similar ignorance of even the obvious facts is manifested in his 2-volume "Guide to the Gulag" by the Frenchman Jacques Rossi: “The first head of Dalstroy is Reingold Iosifovich Berzin. His deputy and head of USVITLAG is Garanin "... In another place of work J. Rossi indicates: “Garanin, the head of the USVITLAG in Kolyma, headed the firing troika, which in 1937-1938. made lists of prisoners to be shot. In total, about 26 thousand political prisoners, recidivist criminals, refuseniks were shot in Kolyma. They say that many were shot personally by Garanin ... " .

On September 27, 1938 SN Garanin was arrested as a "Polish spy" and accused of carrying out unjustified mass repressions, of executions, etc. sabotage and destroying prisoners,. On January 17, 1940, a meeting of the Special Meeting of the NKVD of the USSR sentenced S.N. Garanin "For participation in a counter-revolutionary organization, to be imprisoned in a forced labor camp for a period of 8 years"... Later this period was extended. According to the certificate of the 1st department of the Pechersk ITL of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, "Stepan Nikolayevich Garanin died on July 9, 1950" Rehabilitated on February 6, 1990

On the basis of the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of November 17, 1938, from now on, consideration of cases in the "troikas" was prohibited, and the "troikas" themselves were eliminated. The "Moscow" brigade of the NKVD of the USSR was recalled to Moscow.

On April 8, 1940, the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court sentenced the former head of the Dalstroy NKVD, Speransky, under Articles 58-7 and 58-11 of the RSFSR Criminal Code to capital punishment - execution. The verdict was carried out. After Speransky's arrest, the NKVD Directorate for Dalstroy and the prosecutor's office dismissed 282 cases as unreasonably initiated. The illegally arrested 274 people were released from custody. The case file contains the minutes of the meetings of the "troika" of the NKVD on "Dalstroy" for 336 convicts, in which falsification was found. Until 2011, there is no information about the rehabilitation of V.M.Speransky.

Katselenbogen (Bogen) M.E. July 7, 1941 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced to death. Until 2011, there is no information on rehabilitation.