Nikolaj FINK Nikolayevich (1906-1938), a German from Ingermanland, was born in the colony of NOVO-PARGOLOVO, district of PARGOLOVSK, Leningrad region (today district of Vybor / St. Petersburg). He also lived there with his family, in a house of his own, and worked as head of the fire-brigade. He was arrested in spring 1938. He was sentenced by the "Dvoyka" (Commission of the People's Committee for Internal Affairs and the Department of Public Prosecution of the USSR) on 20.05.38 and shot dead in LENINGRAD on 11.06.38. He was posthumously rehabilitated by the military tribunal of the Leningrad military district on 18.12.57.
On 27.03.42 the Communists deported his family from NOVO-PARGOLOVO:
They were taken as far as the Ladoga Lake on open-frame, wooden carts, then transferred to trucks that drove them across the ice to KOBONA, where they were loaded on a goods train (at those times there was some occasional railroad traffic in that region). The train was unloaded in KRASNOYARSK on 27.04.42. Some of the exiles, among them the FINK family, stayed in the town and settled in a two-story lodging house, in Profsoyus Street N° 8. Before the war this building had housed the administration of recreation homes. The exiles worked in the combine harvester factory. Beginning of 1942, N. FINK was transferred to the machine factory (today "Kraslesmash = Krasnoyarsk factory for forest machinery).
T. FINK and her children stayed in Krasnoyarsk, until they were released from exile beginning of 1956. They were all given passports. They stayed in Krasnoyarsk.
T. FINK was rehabilitated by the Administration of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg town and the region of Leningrad on 17.10.97.
Dec. 30, 1997, recorded by V.S. Birger, Krasnoyarsk, "Memorial" Society
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