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They deported the Russian family BELOSELSKIY (farmers) from KOLESOVO, KABANSK district, Buryat-Mongolian ASSR (not far from Lake Baikal, in the Selenga delta) in June 1939:
• BELOSELSKIY, Filat Stepanovich (1885-1938), local
• MERKUSHEVA, Anna Gordeyevna (born in 1890), his second wife
• BELOSELSKIY, Georgiy Filatovich (born in 1912), lives in the Irkutsk region
• BELOSELSKAYA, Taisya Filatovna (1915-1989)
• BELOSELSKIY, Vassily Filatovich (born in 1917), lives in Krasnoyarsk
• BELOSELSKAYA, Klavdiya Filatovna (1919-1985)
• BELOSELSKAYA, Ustinya Filatovna (born in 1921), lives in Khabarovsk
• BELOSELSKIY, Konstantin Filatovich (born in 1923), lives in Khabarovsk
• BELOSELSKIY, Innokentiy Filatovich (born in 1925), lives in Khabarovsk
• MERKUSHEVA (BELOSELSKAYA), Alexandra Filatovna (born in 1928)
They were sent to KANSK and from there via IRBEY to the river Agul. On its middle course there was the settlement of NIZHNE-SAKHARNAYA, and a few kilometers away, in the taiga, another settlement consisting of two barracks only. This place was called YURCHA. And this is where F. (S.) BELOSELSKIY and his family were to spend the exile.
They worked in the lumber industry and were recorded as belonging to the IRBEY commandant's office.
In 1933 F. (S.) BELOSELSKIY ran away from exile, together with his wife and the eldest children, and returned home.
He and his family settled down in KUDARA, KABANSK district, where he worked as a fisherman in the NKVD fish-processing factory.
He was arrested late in 1937. An NKVD troika of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR sentenced him on section 58-10, 82 on the 25.12.1937; he was executed by a firing squad in ULAN-UDE on 05.01.1938.
The Department of Public Prosecution rehabilitated him posthumously on 18.10.1989.
On account of their exile F. (S.)BELOSELSKIY, A. (G.) MERKUSHEVA and A. (F.) MERKUSHEVA were rehabilitated by the Information Center of the Ministry of the Interior
(Republic of Buryatia) on 20.01.1994.
09.02.1997, recorded by V.S. Birger, Krasnoyarsk, “Memorial” Society
Archives
• copy of two rehabilitation certificates of F. (S.) Beloselskiy
• copy of the protocol drawn up by the NKVD troika of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR
• copy of the protocol drawn up during the judicial inquiry of F. (S.) Beloselskiy
• copy of a letter regarding the death registration of F. (S.) Beloselskiy
• copy of an archival certificate from the Irkutsk Regional Administration of Internal Affairs
• copies of a letter and a final certificate from the Ministry of the Interior (Republic of
Buryatia)