TOMSK, Oct 15 – RIA
Tomsk. Memory center of special settlers appear in 2020 in Palochka
village, Verkhneketsky district, Tomsk region using funds of presidential grant,
one of authors Irina Yanchenko told. According to the Presidential Grants Foundation
website support in the second competition of 2019 get project to create memory square
of repression victims in Strezhevoy.
Continuation of the
"Palochka" project
Earlier it was reported
that in the Verkhneketsky district of the Tomsk region, in the village of Palochka,
which arose in the early 1930s as a result of the forcible resettlement of dispossessed
peasants, thousands of whom later died of starvation and disease, the first in the
Russian Federation memorial to victims of collectivization may appear. The authors
of the idea – two residents of the village – won a presidential grant to search
for mass graves and restore the names of the victims.
According to Yanchenko,
within the framework of the implementation of the project on the first grant, work
was carried out in the archives of the Tomsk region and Altai Krai. The list of
names compiled from the documents already includes several thousand and continues
to grow. The authors applied to participate in the second presidential grant competition
of 2019 in order to continue research and won 1.2 million rubles.
"The grant will
go to the opening (in Palochka) of a center for the memory of special settlers,
in which all our documentation will be collected. Plus, we plan to collect information
about the toponymy of our region, about the disappeared villages. Also in the center
will be a hall of military glory – these are about our war veterans, who are missing,
who died on the battlefields. It will be a common center", – the agency’s interlocutor
said.
She added that several
options are currently being considered where to place the center, including the
buildings of the former rural store and bakery.
Memory square in
Strezhevoy
As follows from the
materials of the website of the Presidential Grants Foundation, in the second competition
of 2019 another project from the Tomsk region devoted to the topic of mass repressions
of the 1930s will receive financial support. A little more than a million rubles
was won by the application of the "Kultura" ("Culture") Foundation
from Strezhevoy. There it is planned to create a memory square for the founders
of the city.
"The village
of Strezhevoy was founded by the repressed in 1932, from scratch, in the taiga on
the banks of the Ob channel. The first wave of special relocations (from the Omsk
and Novosibirsk regions) to our places is connected with the elimination of the
kulaks as a class. The second wave of special relocations to Strezhevoy surged into
1940s, the Volga Germans were forcibly resettled here", – says the project
description.