Only recently was it possible to learn about the extent of Stalin’s repression in Shostka region. According to the Sumy edition of the documentary “Rehabilitated by History”, more than 1,200 locals were repressed in Shostka and the district
The first victims of the repression were allies and opponents of the Bolsheviks during the revolutionary contests, members of the Menshevik, Socialist Revolutionary Party, participants in the rebellion against the Bolshevik Special Army of Remnyov in April 1918 (http://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2018/06/2 /152540/), members of the Roman Litovchenko detachment, which waged an armed struggle against the Red Army in 1918.
Some of the repressed that have survived in their families have been found. The museum exhibits photos of residents of Shostka, factory workers accused of participating in the 1918 Revolutionary Rebellion and shot: Ivan Mashyckij, Theodosius Udovenchik, Nikifor Arkhipchenko. You can also read the document, Resolution_of_prossecutor_DASO_470_896 (1). In 1956, the Prosecutor of Sumy Region found it illegal and appealed (appealed).
Archival investigations on Fedor Trigubchenko, Anton Kudas, Mykola Kalinin (Tregubchenko_Petrov_cover, Kalinin cover, Kudas_cover), reveal the method of fabricating allegations. Already at the stage of filling in the questionnaires for the arrested (Petrov_questionnaire, Tregubchenko_questionnaire) and writing a certificate-characteristic from the Shostka City Council, a biased attitude towards these people was formed, the accused tone sounded “served in the hetman gang” (Tregubchenko_certificate) . There are photos of detainees in investigative cases, but they are not signed and we cannot tell who is who (Photo_Tregubchenk_case, Anton_Kudas). This is a very rare case for 1930s affairs. These faces from the files of archival investigative cases – full face, profile – already torn from the society of people, impersonal, cleaned by the camera’s dusty eye.
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- Photo from the archival investigative case of Fedir Trehubchenko, Ignatii Petrov, Nikifor Kalinin, 1938– 1939.
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- Photo from the archival investigative case of Fedir Trehubchenko, Ignatii Petrov, Nikifor Kalinin, 1938– 1939.
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- Kudas Anton Andreevich was born in 1886, in Novgorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv region, lived in Shostka. He worked in the industrial bakery. Arrested on 7.08.1938, sentenced to death, but sentenced was by the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR on 11.07.1939 commuted to the 10 years in prison
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- The title page of the archival investigative case of Fedir Trehubchenko, Ignatii Petrov, Nikifor Kalinin, 1938– 1939
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- A questionnaire of prisoner Ignatii Petrov, chief of production depots of Plant No. 9, from archival investigation
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- Reference and characteristic from the archival-investigative case of Ignatii Petrov, chief of production depots of Plant No. 9.
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- Reference and characteristic from the archival-investigative case of Fedir Trehubchenko, masters of production gunpowder of Shostka Powder Plant No. 9.
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- A questionnaire of prisoner Fedir Trehubchenko, masters of production gunpowder of Shostka Powder Plant No. 9, from archival investigation
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- Oleksandr Pavlyuk (1909–1937), mechanic of the 2nd production of Plant No. 9. Shot for participation in a counter-revolutionary organization.
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- Pavlo Zaykovsky (1893-1938), legal counselor of Factory No. 6 (film).
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- Udovenchik Theodosius Grigorovich (1878–1938), worker of the Shostka film factory №6. He was shot on May 28, 1938 in Chernihiv.
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- Indictment in the case of an anti-Soviet SSR organization in the city of Shostka, which was fabricated by the Shostka District Branch of the NKVD. April 10, 1938
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- Indictment in the case of an anti-Soviet SSR organization in the city of Shostka, which was fabricated by the Shostka District Branch of the NKVD. April 10, 1938
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- Nikifor Arkhipchenko (left) with his wife and her relatives. [1912]
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- Family of Ivan Ivanovich Mashytsky (sits to the left), born in 1887, in Hlukhiv, lived in Shostka, turner-electrician of plant No. 9. Arrested on February 28, 1931 and March 10, 1938. in Chernihiv
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- Mikhail Pihunov (right, seated) (188 – 1938), accused of participating in an anti-Soviet nationalist organization, shot on 13.04.1938.
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- Andriy Kovalev (1886-1938), accountant of the communications department. Arrested and shot for participating in a Ukrainian nationalist counter-revolutionary insurgent organization.
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- Vasily Klimov (1886–1938), (first row, left) accountant of Factory No. 6 (film).
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- The first page of the Protest (in the order of supervision) of the Prosecutor of the Sumy region of the Ukrainian SSR against the decision of the troika at the Chernihiv NKVD Office of 29.04.1938 in the case of unjust accusation of the residents of Shostka city of anti-Soviet activity. 1956
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- The second page of the Protest (in the order of supervision) of the Prosecutor of the Sumy region of the Ukrainian SSR against the decision of the troika at the Chernihiv NKVD Office of 29.04.1938 in the case of unjust accusation of the residents of Shostka city of anti-Soviet activity. 1956
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- The last page of the Protest (in the order of supervision) of the Prosecutor of the Sumy region of the Ukrainian SSR against the decision of the troika at the Chernihiv NKVD Office of 29.04.1938 in the case of unjust accusation of the residents of Shostka city of anti-Soviet activity. 1956
