Abbreviations

a. –

year

a-k, al. –

borough

andmed –

data

ANSV –

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (administrative unit of the USSR)

AO –

Autonomous Oblast (administrative unit of the USSR on the hereditary territory of the national minority)

arr. –

arrested

as. –

settlement

asum. –

in deportation

(d) –

data from a reliable document (e.g. identification card of the Estonian Republic)

eluk. –

place of residence

en. –

first name

ENSV SM

ESSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA)

ERRB –

Estonian Repressed Persons Records Bureau, active unit of the Association MEMENTO of the deported persons and former political prisoners

gr. –

group ( level of invalidity)

in. –

father’s name

k. –

village

ka –

also

KGB –

general name of the Soviet political police institution (exact name varied in years)

kolh. –

collective farm

kp. –

date

krai –

Kray (administrative unit of the USSR)

lk. –

page

MN –

Council of Ministers (Soviet Government)

np. –

neé, maiden name

NL –

Soviet Union

NV –

Soviet Russia

obl. –

Oblast (administrative unit of the USSR)

osak. –

department

perek. –

family

raj. –

Region (administrative unit of the USSR)

rdt. –

railway

sovh. –

state farm

s., sünd. –

b., born

surn. –

died

surn. teel –

died on the way to deportation destination

t. –

farm

v. –

Parish

vab. –

released

ENSV RJK –

State Security Committee of the Estonian SSR (1949 – Ministry; it had various names in different times)

ENSV MN –

Estonian SSR Council of Ministers

erin. –

Special Council of the USSR State Security Committee (institution for sentencing outside court)

oblastikohus –

II level court

ringkonnakohus –

district court, the sole kind of court in the national district (the smallest administrative unit of a minority nation in the SU)

rk. –

people’s court (ordinary I level court)

trib. –

tribunal (special court at a military unit)

ÜK –

Supreme Court (court of the highest level)

2+5 –

1st number denotes the years of imprisonment (in camp), 2nd the years of deportation

a. –

year

k. (6 k.) –

month (e.g. imprisonment term 1y. 6 m.)

K –

kulak, a Soviet term for a farmer sentenced to deportation

küüdit. –

deported (in mass actions)

lg. –

section (paragraph’s subdivision of the Criminal Code)

mitte küüditatud

not deported (not at home)

N –

nationalist, a Soviet term of a nationalist (striving for independence) sentenced to deportation

NL ÜNP –

Supreme Presidium of the Soviet Union, gave orders, supplementary legal acts (lower than the law) to the Criminal Code, e. g. NL ÜNP 04.06.47.

NV –

Soviet Russia, in this book it denotes the valid legal acts in the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic

pärast kar. kandm. –

after imprisonment

§58–10 –

anti-Soviet propaganda

§58–11 –

anti-state activity in group or organisation

§60 –

non-liability of tax payment

§61 –

non-payment in kind

§62 –

hiding of the taxable property or the property as payment basis

§82 –

escape from imprisonment or deportation

§182 –

illegal ownership of the arms

§192 –

infringement of passport regime

Note: RSFSR Criminal Code used for the basis of punishment has not been marked in the file. But the other legal acts or Criminal Codes have been marked.

ERAF –

BESA is an old denotation of the Branch of the Estonian State Archives (Party Archives) and here it is also used for the State Archives Department of the Estonian National Archives. The funds of the ESSR MIA (Ministry of Internal Affairs) are in this Archives.

F. –

Archives Fund

F8 –

Fund No 8 of the ESSR MIA in the State Archives Department of the Estonian National Archives, a collection of personal files of the banished persons

kl –

questionnaire (document of the ERPRB inquiry)

kv –

data of the ERPRB correspondence

l. –

sheet, (in Archive files)

mk –

data of the persons sentenced to deportation in March, but had been arrested already earlier or banished persons after imprisonment

mr –

data of the deported in March, collected in the initial period of “Memento” Union

[2121K] –

file no. 2121 in Fund 4-K of Archives

K –

sign of Archive Fund No 4-K

N –

sign of Archive Fund No 3-N

n. –

archival list

Pro Patria II –

“Pro Patria II, Book of Honour to the fallen and perished freedom fighters (“forest brothers”) 1944–1978.” Comp. E.-N. Kross, Tartu 1998

R –

sign of Archive Fund No 6-R

s.ü. –

depository unit (file or other dossier in the Archive)

Note: In some cases also the data of the other funds or Name Register Books has been used.