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- At the time, there were about 145,000 people living in Novocherkassk.
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The security forces killed 26 people, according to the official account, in the massacre. [3] On January 1, 1962, the wages at the NEVZ were lowered by 30–35%. [3] At the same time, the production quotas which were set up for workers as a part of the Soviet Union's planned economy were raised.
- 1962
- Burying The Memory
- Memory’s Return
“Send Khrushchev to the butcher!”
On May 31, 1962, the radio announced that prices were going up: meat would be a third more expensive, and butter would cost 25 percent more. Soviet citizens were not happy about this. In her book, “Novocherkassk: The Bloody Noon,” historian Tatyana Bocharova published excerpts from KGB memos with quotes from conversations between ordinary people standing in food lines and at train stations and in factories. A driver in Arkhangelsk complained, “Life is getting worse and worse. Kennedy would be...
Before the catastrophe
In the morning, another crowd assembled in the square, with everyone discussing the events of the day before and the overnight appearance of the military. Almost immediately, the demonstrators broke through the line of soldiers defending the railway and again blocked the tracks, stopping a train headed to Baku from Moscow. Around 9 a.m., Frol Kozlov telephoned Khrushchev, who ordered him not to make any promises to Novocherkassk’s workers. The Soviet leader also asked Kozlov if he’d enjoyed h...
The massacre
Novocherkassk’s city committee was located in a two-story building that was once a Cossack Ataman palace frequented by traveling Russian tsars in the 19th century. The palace faced a square that was surrounded by other two-story buildings that housed, among other things, the city prosecutor’s office, the local Communist Youth League headquarters, military warehouses, and a planetarium. As one KGB agent later remembered, when the protesters reached the square, none of the local officials wante...
Those tattooed criminals
In the weeks, months, and years later, the central task of Soviet intelligence agents was to hide the fact that the shooting took place and to stop the dissemination of information about its victims. About 150 KGB agents were dispatched to Novocherkassk and its neighboring cities. According to historian Tatyana Bocharova, some of these officials were charged with pinpointing any radiowave attempts to transmit information about the shooting to foreign sources. Despite these efforts, Time magaz...
“There's nothing meaner than a woman”
On June 12, 1965, crane operator Valentina Vodyanitskaya came to work with her three-year-old son, Zhenya. At the steel plant, an unfamiliar man approached her. She says he was wearing a long trench coat. “Vodyanitskaya? I’ve been waiting for you. We need to speak,” he said. When they stepped outside, the man grabbed her by the arm, shoved her into a nearby blue car, and shouted at the driver, “Step on it!” Vodyanitskaya remembers looking through the car’s rear window at her son; he was stand...
A son of a Bolshevik
In the late 1980s, one of Novocherkassk’s cultural centers held evening gatherings twice a week where locals met to discuss Perestroika, the revival of the Cossacks, and the fight against the construction of a nuclear power plant in Rostov. Between 20 and 30 people would attend, and they called the group “the Novocherkassk Cultural Center” and sometimes “the Search.” Critics called it “the Scheme.” One of the people who came to these meetings was Tatyana Bocharova, a research associate at the...
Searching for the graves
Ahead of their memorial rally in 1990, activists handed out leaflets about how the “new era” of Perestroika and Glasnost was “lifting the veil over the Novocherkassk tragedy.” The demonstration began around 11 a.m., and most of the people who came felt extremely uncomfortable. For some, the last time they’d set foot in the square was in 1962. A few of the mothers who’d lost children 28 years earlier broke down into tears. The demonstrators resolved to create a memorial and begin tracking down...
“It's amazing”
Back in 1991, Novocherkassk activists tried to find out from the KGB where seven people had been buried after they were executed by court order. A high-ranking police chief told them that the bodies had been laid to rest at a “top secret” cemetery. The head of the Rostov KGB office said, “Don’t go looking for it. You won’t find it.” To this day, the location of these graves remains a mystery. Bocharova believes these seven people aren’t the only victims whose remains still haven’t been found....
Jun 4, 2012 · “A total of 45 people turned to the city's hospitals with gunshot wounds, although there were many more victims (according to official data - 87 people), perhaps people did not want to talk about where they were injured, fearing persecution.
Two months later, on 27 December, a 14-year-old Gukovo schoolboy, Sergey Markov, was lured off a train and murdered at a rural station near Novocherkassk. [92] Markov was emasculated and suffered over seventy knife wounds to his neck and upper torso before being eviscerated.
The Novocherkassk tragedy exposed the fraud and hypocrisy of the criminal totalitarian regime. On January 1, 1962, wages were lowered by 30 to 35 percent at the largest electrolocomotive plant in Novocherkassk (NEVZ). The last shop in the plant where wages were scheduled to be lowered was the steel shop.
Jul 30, 2021 · At least 23 people were killed when Soviet forces opened fire at a protest against rising food prices in Novocherkassk in 1962. REUTERS/Sergey Pivovarov RUSSIA-NAVALNY/PROTEST-CITY
Nov 14, 1976 · The exiled Russian writer said the Soviet authorities tried to keep secret the revolt by workers in Novocherkassk, a city of 168,000 on the Don River near Rostov, following an announcement of...
