Issues of rehabilitation of victims of political repression in Akmola region (late 1980 – early 1990)

Abstract

In the article, the author examines the issues of rehabilitation of victims of political repression in the Akmola region. The region was not chosen by chance, as it was one of the epicenters and the place of exile, deportations, Stalinist camps on the territory of North Kazakhstan. For many years they have been waiting for full political and legal rehabilitation. In the late 1980s, then after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the independence of Kazakhstan, large-scale work began in the region to declassify documents of law enforcement agencies and to rehabilitate victims of political repression, including deported and repressed peoples. The article presents the history of political repression in Akmola region, gives a brief
overview of the history of the region, examines the work of the Prosecutor's Office of Akmola region and Akmola regional Administration in the rehabilitation of citizens, as well as statistical materials on this issue. Separately, the activities of the chairman of the Association of Victims of Illegal Repressions of the Akmola region Grinev Vladimir Mikhailovich are shown. Author used archival materials of the Archive of President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, State Archive of Akmola region and State Archive of Karaganda region, including sources on the rehabilitation of the republican scale in the central archives of the country, party documents and statistical materials of the Tselinograd regional Committee, as well as documents of the
Akmola regional administration and the personal fund of the chairman of the Association of Victims of Illegal Repression of the Akmola region Grinev Vladimir Mikhailovich, answers to his letters in the central archives.