An attempt to understand the situation with the Perm-36 Museum Automatic translate

MOSCOW. At the Gulag History Museum, screenings of Sergei Kachkin’s film Perm-36. Reflection".

Perm-36 high security ITC has been operating in the village of Kuchino for 42 years. Political prisoners were sent to re-education to this colony for especially dangerous criminals. Seven circles of hell at different times here passed Nathan Sharansky, Vladimir Bukovsky, Gleb Yakunin, Nikolai Brown, Sergey Kovalev. Valery Marchenko and Vasil Stus did not survive the conclusion. Shortly after the start of perestroika, in 1988, the colony was closed. 8 years later, after the restoration of the barracks, the restoration of broken towers and fences, the Museum of the History of Political Repressions was opened on the territory of the former correctional institution. The owner of the 2016 National Bestseller and Big Book, Leonid Yuzefovich was among those who financially supported the reconstruction of Perm-36 20 years ago.

In addition to exhibits and exhibitions, the Pilorama forum has been regularly held in the Museum since 2005 - a gathering place for thousands of citizens and leaders of the human rights movement who are not indifferent to the fate of the country and freedom of speech. In 2013, the forum organizers had to abandon it. The museum itself, which is currently undergoing self-liquidation, is also under threat of closure. The film was directed and produced by Sergei Kachkin, a student of Marina Razbezhkina, and was attended by former political prisoners - Mikhail Meilakh, Victor Pestov, Sergey Kovalev. Specialist in Roman philology, translator, Ph.D. Mikhail Meilakh was imprisoned for the storage and distribution of prohibited literature. After his release, he lives and works mainly abroad. He is now a professor at the University of Strasbourg. Kovalev - President of the Memorial Society and the Institute for Human Rights. Victor Pestov is the creator of the Ural Independent Public Library, a consultant to the Perm-36 Center for the History of Political Repressions. Kachkin’s film is a story about the fate of the main characters, the difficult situation in which the museum found itself, an analysis of the current socio-political situation.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru