Memory of Russia: Conference, dedicated to the prisoners of camps, in Solovki

Previously unpublished memoirs of prisoners of the Solovki camps will for the first be featured time at the conference "The history of the country in the fate of prisoners of the Solovki camps", which takes place on July 13-14 in the archipelago.

Most of the reports are devoted to the confessors of faith: the clergy, the monks, the laity. The event, organized by the Solovetsky Museum-Reserve, the monastery of the same name and "Northern Maritime Partnership", will be attended by Archimandrite of the Solovetsky monastery Iannuary (Nedachin), archivist of academician Dmitry Likhachev in the Pushkin House Oleg Panchenko, the museum specialists, the delegation of the Karelian and Pomor youth. All participants will honor the memory of deceased prisoners laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone in the Memory Alley.

The Solovetsky archipelago is located in the Onega Bay, it consists of six large and several tens of small islands. The Solovetsky Monastery was founded in 1436 by the monks Zosima, Sabbatius and Herman.

The archipelago also included Solovki prison camp, created in 1920. SLON was the first camp in the Soviet Union of a special purpose and initiated the Gulag. There were exiled hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, monks and priests, members of the White movement, intellectuals and dispossessed peasants.