Ivan Ivanovich Dolgikh ( 1896 - 1956 ) - a participant in the Civil War in Altai, an employee of the GULAG system , a colonel of the NKVD . (Not to be confused with the lieutenant general , the head of the GULAG ( 1951 - 1954 ) Ivan Ilyich Dolgikh ).
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| Date of Birth | 1896 |
| Place of Birth | Barnaul |
| Date of death | 1956 |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
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Biography
Ivan Dolgikh was born on July 13, 1896 [1] in Barnaul . Russian. Since 1907, after graduating from a parish school, Dolgikh worked as a house painter and tinsmith. In 1915 he was called up for military service. At first he served as a private of the 17th reserve regiment in the city of Novo-Nikolaevsk . In 1916, he fought in the First World War as part of the 518th Alashkersky Caucasian regiment. He was awarded two crosses of St. George . Three times wounded. For refusing to carry out an execution on a soldier, Dolgikh was brought to a military field court, from which he was saved only by the beginning of the February Revolution [2]
From August 1917 to May 1918 he was a member of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party [2] .
In May-June 1918 he led a detachment of Barnaul workers who defended the city from the advancing Czechoslovakians [3] . He participated in the campaign of the detachment of Peter Sukhov . On August 7, 1918, in a battle near the village of Tyungur, Gorny Altai, the Sukhov detachment was defeated, Dolgikh was captured by the White Guard esaul Kaygorodov . Volost foreman Arkhipov and volost clerk Gomzin saved Ivan Dolgikh from imminent execution - having learned that Dolgikh was able to repair agricultural machinery, they persuaded the Cossacks to spare the prisoner. Soon Dolgikh fled, but in October 1918 he was arrested and imprisoned in Barnaul, from where he managed to escape in March 1919. He was in an illegal position, moonlighting as a tinsmith. In August, Dolgikh was again arrested by the White Guards, but thanks to the bribing of prison staff he was released. In the autumn of the same 1919, Dolgikh reached the partisans and fought in the 22nd Priobsky regiment of the 6th partisan division.
In 1920, Dolgikh, being the battalion commander of the 1st Altai Reserve Regiment, participated in battles on the Southern Front against the troops of Baron Wrangel . In the same year he joined the Communist Party.
In the spring of 1922, at the head of the CHON detachment, he made the most difficult transition through the Terektinsky Range to the rear of the Kaygorodov detachment and eliminated it. 40 people were captured, including Kaygorodov. Due to the impossibility of escorting Dolgikh ordered the execution of prisoners [4] , and Kaygorodov personally chopped off his head [5] . For the destruction of the rebel movement in Altai, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner .
From October 1924 to August 1925, Dolgikh was a student of the higher tactical rifle school of the command staff of the Red Army "Shot" . At the end of the courses, until December 1926 he served as commander of the 62nd Red Banner Regiment in Novosibirsk [2] .
At the end of 1926 he was appointed head of the Barnaul prison. Since September 1928, Dolgikh headed the Barnaul District Committee. In 1930 he was transferred to Novosibirsk, where he began work in the Gulag system. First Dolgikh was the head of the department of labor settlements, then the deputy head of the Camp Administration of the Plenipotentiary Representation of the OGPU-NKVD of the West Siberian Territory (since 1937 - the Novosibirsk Region) [6] .
It is worth noting that at this time Dolgikh contributed to the development of mountaineering in Altai. In 1935, he led a mass ascent to the highest peak of Altai - Mount Belukha [7] .
From March 1938 to March 1939 he was deputy. Chief Kraslag in the city of Kansk [6] . From April 1939 to July 1941 Dolgikh was the head of Vyatlag [8] . Under the Dolgikhs in Vyatlag, the construction of the village of Lesnoy was completed, a house of culture, a stadium, a hospital for civilian employees and a "camp" for prisoners were built [1] . In July 1941, Dolgikh became the head of Ivdellag (Sverdlovsk region) [8] .
From October 1944 to January 1945 - deputy. Head of the Office for Prisoners of War and Internment of the NKVD of the USSR [6] .
Since February 1945 - head of special camp No. 0324 in Shatura, Moscow Region [6] .
In March 1946, Dolgikh was fired due to illness, but a year later he recovered from service and became the head of Yuzhkuzbasslag [8] .
In January 1951, Ivan Dolgikh was fired due to illness while retaining the right to wear a military uniform. After retiring, Dolgikh left for Moscow, where he died in 1956 [9] ..
Family
Father Ivan Dolgikh was a merchant. He died in 1910. Mother in 1911 left for Harbin, after which her traces are lost [1] .
Long was married to a native of the city of Tambov, Maria Stepanovna. In marriage there was a daughter Vera (born in 1920) [9] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Dolgikh I.I. - Head of Vyatlag
- ↑ 1 2 3 Ryabova Yu.V. I.I. Dolgikh - the first head of the South Kuzbass correctional labor camp of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs: // Bulletin (inaccessible link) of Tomsk State University, 2017, No. 418, p. 144
- ↑ ABOUT THESE FAR DAYS ...
- ↑ SNOW HIKE (Memoirs of I.I. Dolgikh about the defeat of the Kaygorodov gang)
- ↑ His name is not forgotten (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment December 19, 2015. Archived December 22, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 History of the Stalinist Gulag, Late 1920s - First Half of the 1950s: Collection of documents in 7 volumes. T. 2. Punitive system: structure and personnel / Otv. ed. and comp. N.V. Petrov. Repl. comp. N.I. Vladimirtsev. M .: ROSSPEN, 2004. ISBN 5-8243-0606-0
- ↑ The history of mountaineering and mountain climbing in Altai
- ↑ 1 2 3 The system of forced labor camps in the USSR. Directory. comp. M. B. Smirnov. M .: Links. 1999
- ↑ 1 2 Ryabova Yu.V. I.I. Dolgikh - the first head of the South Kuzbass correctional labor camp of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs: // Bulletin (inaccessible link) of Tomsk State University, 2017, No. 418, p. 145