Commemorative candle. The Taimyr Region during
the years of political repressions. Memoirs
Alexander Fyodorovich Miller was born on the river Volga. He took training
courses with the
Professional school of craftsmen in Marxstadt. In June1942 wurde he and his
parents were deported to the Taimyr Region – to Nosonovsk, a fishing station at
the lower reaches of the Yenisey. He had to work for the fishing industry in
places like Ladygin Yar, Sidorovsk, Nikandrovsk und Baykalovsk. His parents died
during the war in the Ust-Yeniseysk District.
In Nosonovsk Alexander Fyodorovich Miller met his wife to-be Lydia Christianovna Raisch , who had been deported together with her mother Emma Karlovna Raisch on the 2nd July 1942. According to evidence given by Lydia Christianovna more than threehundred people in all were taken to Nosonovsk by force. Her mother died in Nosonovsk in the very first winter.
Alexander and Lydia got married in 1944. Their first son – Arthur – was born in Nosonovsk in 1946. The couple brought up seven children.
Nikandrovsk fishing station on the lower reaches of the Yenisey.
From the left – Lida Miller, next to her, in a white dress - Amalie Wais.
1940-50.
Taimyr Regional Museum of Local Lore
Fund for cultural initiatives
(Mikhail-Prokhorov-Foundation)
2006