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)

as. –

settlement

(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

Inv. –

invalid

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

NSV –

Soviet Socialist Republic (administrative unit of the USSR)

obl. –

Oblast (administrative unit of the USSR)

osak. –

department

perek. –

family

raj. –

Region (administrative unit of the USSR)

rdt. –

railway

rdtj. –

railway station

s.h.

among this

sovh. –

state farm

s., sünd. –

b., born

surn. –

died

surn. teel –

died on the way to deportation destination

t. –

farm

v. –

Parish

10+5 –

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

a. –

year

arr. –

arrested

asumisel

in deportation

küüdit. –

deported (in mass actions)

lg. –

section (paragraph's subdivision of the Criminal Code)

mitte küüditatud

not deported (not at home)

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.

pärast kar. kandm. –

after imprisonment

vab.

became or was/were released

EK(b)P

Communist (Bolshevik) Party of Estonia

ENSV RJK –

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

erin. –

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

GULag

Main Administration for Camps

KK

Central Committee

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)

RJRK

State Security Commissariat

rk. –

people's court (ordinary I level court)

RKN

Council of People's Commissars

SaRK

People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs

trib. –

tribunal (special court at a military unit)

ÜK –

Supreme Court (court of the highest level)

ÜK(b)P

All-Union Communist (Bolshevik) Party

§7 –

acts or relations dangerous to society

§17 –

incriminated accomplice in crime

§35 –

banishment

§58–1a –

treachery (accusation basis: service in the German Army or Self-Defence, "forest brotherhood")

§58–1b –

crime of treason while serving in the military forces

§58–2 –

assertion of authority with a counter-revolutionary purpose

§58–3 –

contacts with foreign states with a counter-revolutionary purpose

§58–4 –

assistance to the international bourgeoisie in anti-Soviet Union activities

§58–6 –

espionage

§58–8 –

act of terrorism

§58–10 –

anti-Soviet propaganda

§58–11 –

anti-state activity in group or organisation

§58–13 –

anti-revolutionary movement activities during the Civil War in Russia

§58–14 –

counter-revolutionary sabotage

§82 –

escape from imprisonment or deportation

Note: RSFSR Criminal Code used for the basis of punishment has not been marked in the file.

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) and the State Security Committee (SSC) are in the same Archives

E –

Indication of the SSC Fund No 130. Indication of the source without indication character denotes a file from Fund 129

F., 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

J –

Fund No 5-J of the ESSR MIA in the State Archives Department of the Estonian National Archives

kl –

questionnaire (document of the ERPRB inquiry)

l. –

sheet, (in Archive files)

[121E] –

file no. 121 in fund 130 of Archives

K –

sign of Archive Fund No 4-K

M –

sign of Archive Fund No 2-M/O

M2-1 –

Archives Fund No 2-M/O, list 2, file 1

n. –

archival list

R –

sign of Archive fund No 6-R

s.s., cc –

top secret

s.-ü. –

depository unit (file or other dossier in the Archive)

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