TOMSK, Jul 25 – RIA Tomsk. The head of the department of culture of the Tomsk region Pavel
Volk and the director of the Gulag History State Museum (Moscow) Roman Romanov
signed the cooperation agreement that in the Tomsk regional museum of local
lore n.a. Mikhail Shatilov Gulag history center will appear, the correspondent
of RIA Tomsk reported from the scene.
Volk and Romanov signed the cooperation agreement
between the Tomsk regional department of culture and the state museum of the
history of the Gulag at the press conference in the RIA Tomsk media center.
Within the framework of this agreement, the center for the study of the history
of the Gulag will be created in the Tomsk regional museum.
"After the agreement is signed, the museum should
prepare proposals (for the creation of the Center), agreed with the museum of
the history of the Gulag ... The project may even be submitted for public
discussion", – Volk reported, having specified that Tomsk State University
and municipal museums resources would also be involved in studying the history
of the Gulag.
As Romanov noted, within the framework of this
agreement Moscow museum plans to attract funding to the Tomsk Center for the
study of the history of the Gulag, and also to share equipment and technologies
with it, in particular, to create contemporary historical films and elements of
virtual reality.
As the director of the museum of local lore Svyatoslav
Perehozhev told RIA Tomsk, this agreement was signed within the framework of
the state concept for perpetuating the memory of victims of political
repression.
"We have always dealt with this topic, told in
the memorial museum "The Investigation Prison of NKVD" about who got
into this place, in what conditions they was here, also talk about the special
settlers in the framework of the project "Siberians voluntary and
involuntary"... And the Center for the study of the history of the Gulag
will help us to cover the history of the entire Tomsk region", – Perehozhev
commented.
The Tomsk memorial museum "The Investigation
Prison of NKVD" is located in the basement room, in which from 1923 to
1944 there was an internal prison of the Tomsk city department of NKVD. The
permanent exhibition includes a reconstructed prison corridor and a cell for
remand prisoners, the interior of the investigator's office. This unique museum
is known both in Russia and abroad. It is a division of the Tomsk regional
museum of local lore.
Earlier
it was reported that during the Great Terror, 1937-1938, at least 10.5 thousand
people were shot in the Tomsk region. In total, more than 400 thousand people
became victims of repression in the region.