Pavel Rotts

This is my life

Researching in Tartu

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doomed to never cone back home to Ingria and to live whole life in exile. Now I know the precise dates of their post war deporation. They were sent to transition camp in Oitti on 21st of September 1945 and were deported to USSR on 1st of October.

30.03.25
The important thing that happened at the end of this week - I got the digital copies of my great-grandparents migration cards.
As Ingrian Finns they we evacuated to Finland during the war but after 1945 the were forcibly deported back to the Soviet Union >

Also knowing the date of their arrival to destination in Lohja camp I can make a request in the local archives in Lohja.
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Next step is to request the copy of this documents and then pull the thread trying to find something else. For example they shod have lists of ferries passengers that were transporting Ingrians from Estonia to Finland.

There are not much information but it fills some gaps in dates and order of events. For example now I know the date when they were transferred from Paldiski, Estonia to Hanko, Finland in 1943 and when they were deported back to USSR via transition camp in Oiti.

Eventually it was almost too easy. The archive employee helped me a lot and in 15 minutes we have found the so-called migration cards of my great grandfather and great grandmother from their time in Finland during WWII.

19.03.25
Today I finally did what I was going to do for almost 10 years living in Finland - went to national archive to request the documents of my displaced Ingrian family.

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Today it’s one year since Navalny was killed in prison in remote northern place called Kharp in Siberia.

14.02.25
Leaving to Norway tonight. Starting long way to Kirkenes with night train to Rovaniemi, bus to Ivalo and then by car, over the Norwegian border to Kirkenes. It’s our second time in this place but first time in winter. Carrying a lot of warm clothes and a suitcase of Sasha’s flags

Heh… yeah. Let’s see let’s see

So, basically nobody post anything here?

And they all do speak English anyway

For now I will keep it English as non of my Russian speaking friends were spotted around here yet)

Cloudy

Made my day

Ложился я в 4 утра

Довольно жутко. Я перед сном листал ленту и видел рилс про другую аварию и я начал думать про самолеты и насколько вообще безопасно летать. И потом подумал что вот не было какое-то время крушений. И следующая мысль была, ну кто знает, может я проснусь, а пока я спал произошла новая авиакатастрофа…

It was a long day

Две новости: хорошая и плохая. Хорошая - переводчик вполне себе перевел я хз как I don’t know. Плохая - это нифига не встроенный переводчик, а открывающийся в окне Google translate

Test: посмотрим хорошо ли работает встроенный переводчик. А что написать для теста я хз. Интересно как он переведет хз? Хм.. Я боюсь что это непереводимая игра слов

But I think there is not bad embedded translation everywhere nowadays. So it doesn’t matter what language to use

I was planning to post here also some texts in Russian but let’s see how many Russian speaking friends are around…

Идея такая. У меня были заметки в разных блогах, начиная от ЖЖ до страничек в Фэйсбук, ВК и Телеге а так же всякие обрывки в заметках. Ну и я буду репаблишинг старых материалов. А некоторые публиковать впервые. На счет регулярности не уверен. Пускай сначала настоится

Думаю попробовать сюда писать вместо твитера раз уж наступил глобальный кризис доверия

I will test this and publish here not only images but rather texts. Some posts will be in Russian and some in English. Not as direct translation but totally different posts and topics. Let’s see