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E.G. Zastrozhnova (Saint Petersburg) – Civil War in Kuban: A First-Person View (Personal Diary of Archaeologist N.K. Minko as Part of the Archival-Criminal Case of the Federal Security Service Directorate of Krasnodar Territory)

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Abstract

Until now, the biography of archaeologist N.K. Minko after 1918 remained unknown. Thanks to the discovery of an archival criminal case opened against him and stored in the archives of the Federal Security Service Directorate of Krasnodar Territory, new details about his life have been revealed. Following his arrest on August 25, 1920, in Yekaterinodar on false charges of espionage, documents in N.K. Minko’s possession on the day of his arrest were seized during a search, including a travel diary written in his capacity as head of the Dressing Squad of the Russian Red Cross Society for the period March–July 1919. Studying this diary and its publication will allow modern scholars not only to reconstruct previously unknown milestones in N.K. Minko’s biography but also to become familiar with an authentic historical source on the Civil War in Kuban.

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Repressed archaeologists, Nikolay K. Minko, archival documents, archival criminal case, Civil War, Red Cross Society.

Evgeniya G. Zastrozhnova (Pankratova)

Saint Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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