Siberian far side. Diary of a BAM guard. 1935-1936

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Diary of Ivan Chistyakov, commander of a platoon of armed guards on one
from the sections of the BAM, which he led in the Gulag day after day, from 1935 to 1936 -
probably the only source of this kind that has come down to us. Not only
diaries, but also any memories of those who were on this side
barbed wire, very little is known, although they worked in the Gulag system
tens of thousands of people. But they did not have a special need to keep diaries.
Moreover, people from these structures understood well how dangerous it was.
Arrests have always been accompanied by searches and seizure of papers, and not only letters
and diaries, but also ordinary notebooks or telephone books - even a simple
a calendar entry could turn into hard evidence. It can be argued that
The notes of Ivan Chistyakov that have miraculously come down to us are unique. original diary
kept in the archives of the Memorial Society in Moscow. Much is known about the author himself.
few. Together with the notebooks, only an amateur photograph has been preserved, on the back
on the side of which there is an inscription: “Chistyakov Ivan Petrovich, repressed in 1937–
1938. He died in 1941 at the front in the Tula region.

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Publication language: Russian

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