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Exile/Camp report given by Maria Bony

In the years 1948-1950 deportees lived in the ERLYKOVKA lumbering zone, village Soviet of MAGANSKAYA, in the SOVIET district (today district of BERYOZOVKA), region of KRASNOYARSK: Germans, Lithuanians, Finns. They worked there in the lumbering zone and lived in barracks.

There were about 40 Lithuanians, among them Nordik KRUMINIS (born around 1922) and his mother KRUMINENE.

There also lived approximately 5 Finnish families, among them the three KUKKONEN brothers, one of them married, as well as the LUKKONEN family.

The Germans (from the Autonomous Republic of the Volga-Germans) were: the BONY family from the village of GATTUNG, canton of UNTERWALDEN, and the MAIER and TIRIG families.

About 3 Kalmyk families worked and lived there, too.

The settlement of ERLYKOVA (which does not exist anymore) was situated on the banks of the little mountain river BAZAIKHA, 12 km away from MAGANSKAYA station, from where one can reach Krasnoyarsk by local train within an hour.

26.04.1991, recorded by V.S. Birger, Krasnoyarsk, "Memorial" Society


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