Cross fate

Victims of repression pomyanuli Orthodox ceremony
Poklonnaya cross installed and consecrated in the village of Cherny Yar in memory of the repressed peasants.
A high cross from the black metal installed near the track. This has a symbolic meaning: here under escort the family went into exile raskulachennyh northerners. In spring of 1929 on barges in the Black Yar brought many peasant families from the villages along the coast of North Dvina. People raskulachivali, as it was called then, on the first category - Heads of families removed separately from the rest.
One of the barges sank with the exiled men opposite the Black Yara, in the so-called Babonegovskoy pit, where the depth of the river in early XX century exceeded 40 meters. The remaining court adhering to the shore, and passengers - women, children, elderly people - placed in temporary barracks built by the river. During the year, many died from disease. Those who survived the winter sent on foot to settle in Pechoru. According to witnesses the events column is not spread by one hundred meters. Docs, which could restore the full picture, little remained.
For many years, collected a former historical background
headman Lyavlinskoy Assumption of Virgin Mary church Nikolai Sukhanov. Do it began, even as the museum director holmogorskoy breed of cattle (Holmogorsky district). His interested in the fact that the 20 documents - ies of the last century, where wealthy residents of the region are mentioned, indicates that their fate is unknown. This owners butter or simply oiler, the hosts sluchnyh points, owners of elite cows and even holders of two houses. In general, color holmogorskogo peasantry, raskulachenny later.
It is also felt that among the northerners, sent to settle in the tundra of Komi, as were residents of Arkhangelsk Province, and neighboring regions, in particular the Vologda region. The exact number of repressed and can not be killed.
Funds for the installation of a cross gathered in the Black Yaru Regional Assembly deputies. According to Lyubov Anisimovoy, donations made more than a dozen members of different factions.
According to Nikolai Sukhanov, Lyavlinskom in the municipality where the Black Yar, there are at least four large graves of victims of political repression. In these places Lyavlinskoy community representatives also intend to establish a memorial crosses.
Yesterday in Arkhangelsk began an international forum, "Culture of the Barents region". Before the opening, Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeyev visited the museum of wooden architecture and folk art "Small Korely" and other cultural cities and areas. Most municipal museums in the region are in serious financial condition, as well as totally dependent on district budgets. According to experts, the status of museums should raise at least regional.

Irina Skalina