On July 30 in Irkutsk there will be a Walk through old Irkutsk dedicated to the repressions of August 1937 to November 1938. Participants with historian Pyotr Bokhanov and Alexander Alexandrov will walk from Litvinov Street to the memorial to victims of mass political repressions in Pivovarikha. Organizers will also recall NKVD Order No. 00447, one of the largest operations of the Great Terror.
30 July, the “Walk through Old Irkutsk” will be dedicated to the repressions that took place in our city in August 1937–November 1938.As the event coordinators, the city public organization “Club of Young Scientists ‘Alliance’,” report, the walk will be led by Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor Pyotr Bokhanov and the leader of the public movement “Memorial” in Eastern Siberia, Alexander Alexandrov. The route of the “Walk”: Litvinov St. (from the tourist monument) – the pretrial detention center No. 1 building (63 Barrikad St.) – the memorial to the victims of mass political repressions (Pivovarikha settlement). Transportation will be provided for city residents who register for the walk in advance. To do this, it is necessary to send an SMS to +7-9021-76-32-26 with your last name and first name by 12:00 on July 29.
The NKVD of the USSR operational order No. 00447, “On the operation to repress former kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements,” was issued on July 30, 1937. Based on this order, over the course of a year and a half (August 1937 - November 1938), 390,000 people were executed, and another 380,000 were sent to Gulag camps. The initially established quotas—to repress 268.95 thousand people, of whom 75.95 thousand were to be shot—were exceeded several times. The operation carried out under this order became the largest mass operation of the “Great Terror.”