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Paul Dmitrievich Prokhorov was born in 1887 in the village of Salmachi,
Pestrechin uyezd, and lived in Kazan, working as a workers’ team leader to
clean up the city. On September 25, 1948 he was arrested for being “a
participant in an anti-Soviet religious group”, and on March 25, 1947 was
sentenced to ten years in the camps and sent to Dubravlag. On February 27,
1954 he was released. Nothing more is known about him.
Maria Prokopyevna Borisova was born in 1924 in the village of Kamskiye
Polyany, Sheremetyevo uyezd into a peasant family, and went to seven
classes of an intermediate school. In 1939 she was working as a clearn in the
Krasno-Kamsky paper combinat. In 1940 she was made redundant and
returned to her native village and for two years was cared for by her parents
because of illness. At the end of 1942 she went to study on course for
combiners, which she finished six months later. She worked as a cleaner at a
mill in her native village, but was made redundant after six months. In 1947
she left home and became a wanderer, without fixed domicile or occupation.
On November 18, 1948 she was arrested in a group case of the True Orthodox
Christians, and was sent for further investigation to Kazan prison. On
February 8, 1949, at a closed session, she was sentenced to twenty years in the
camps with disenfranchisement for five years. On September 21, 1950 she was
taken under convoy to Ivedellag (Ivdel, Sverdlovsk province), but was later
transferred to a camp in Astrakhan. On November 17, 1954 her punishment
was reduced to seven years. On March 24, 1955 she was released from camp.
Nothing more is known about her.
Olga Yemelyanovna Vasyunina was born in 1899 in the village of
Kudashevo, Pestrechinsky uyezd, Tataria into a peasant family. She was
illiterate, without fixed occupation or domicile. In 1946 she joined a group of
True Orthodox Christians in Kazan. On July 1, 1948 she was arrested in
connection with a group case of churchmen, and was accused that: “in 1946
she joined an anti-Soviet organization of churchmen of the True Orthodox
Church, destroyed her personal documents and went underground. She took
part in illegal meetings. She went round the villages carrying out anti-Soviet
agitation among the population and resisting the enterprises of the Soviet
state.” On September 11-13, 1948 she was sentenced to seven years in the
camps with disenfranchisement for three years. On April 11, 1949 she was
sentenced to twenty-five years in the camps with disenfranchisement for five
years. She was sent to Dubrovlag. On November 24, 1954 she was released.
Nothing more is known about her.
Martha Demyanovna Kuznetsova was born in 1916 in the village of
Khlebodarovka, Syzran province into a peasant family, and received an
elementary education. She lived in Kazan, working in a factory. In 1946 she
joined a group of True Orthodox Christians, and on July 12, 1948 was arrested
in a group church case and accused that: “being hostile to Soviet power, she
entered an anti-Soviet organization, the True Orthodox Church, in whose
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