And one more card from our collection - also with its own dramatic story. In August 1938, Professor Georgy Mirchink writes to his daughter Sofia about his long journey and how his booking book helped him to get a soft seat in the best train and get ahead of a certain Professor Stepanov, who was following him in a rough carriage. Georgy Fedorovich Mirchink, a professor and one of the founders of the Quaternary School of Geologists in Moscow, headed the department at the Moscow Geological Research Institute and in 1937 received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. His daughter Sophia graduated from the institute where her father worked in May 1938 and went to work in the gold-bearing area of ​​Lensky, that is, in Budaivo. Where her father writes to her: "Dear daughter! With great difficulty I finished my journey along the Kama and the Volga and now I am moving from Kuibyshev to Salair, not without difficulty. In Chelyabinsk I had to change trains, where, thanks to my reservation book, I got a soft seat in the best train and thus bypassed Professor Stepanov... " Additional plans: "By 10/9 I hope to be in Moscow and from there travel to Kislovodsk. I kiss you deeply, your father. "Two years after this letter, c. P. Mirchink will become an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR. And on the second day of the war, June 23, 1941, he would be arrested right in his office on the charge of "participating in an anti-Soviet monarchist organization." His family won't know where he is for a long time. Only in May 1942 will his relatives be told that he died in April in the Saratov prison hospital, without waiting for a trial. And Sofia Georgievna searched for gold in Siberia for many years and died in 1962, without waiting for her father's rehabilitation, which happened only in 1990. You can read about it, as well as how Sophia herself miraculously escaped widespread repression in Budaibo during her business trip here.

And one more card from our collection - also with its own dramatic story. In August 1938, Professor Georgy Mirchink writes to his daughter Sofia about his long journey and how his booking book helped him to get a soft seat in the best train and get ahead of a certain Professor Stepanov, who was following him in a rough carriage. Georgy Fedorovich Mirchink, a professor and one of the founders of the Quaternary School of Geologists in Moscow, headed the department at the Moscow Geological Research Institute and in 1937 received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. His daughter Sophia graduated from the institute where her father worked in May 1938 and went to work in the gold-bearing area of ​​Lensky, that is, in Budaivo. Where her father writes to her: "Dear daughter! With great difficulty I finished my journey along the Kama and the Volga and now I am moving from Kuibyshev to Salair, not without difficulty. In Chelyabinsk I had to change trains, where, thanks to my reservation book, I got a soft seat in the best train and thus bypassed Professor Stepanov... " Additional plans: "By 10/9 I hope to be in Moscow and from there travel to Kislovodsk. I kiss you deeply, your father. "Two years after this letter, c. P. Mirchink will become an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR. And on the second day of the war, June 23, 1941, he would be arrested right in his office on the charge of "participating in an anti-Soviet monarchist organization." His family won't know where he is for a long time. Only in May 1942 will his relatives be told that he died in April in the Saratov prison hospital, without waiting for a trial. And Sofia Georgievna searched for gold in Siberia for many years and died in 1962, without waiting for her father's rehabilitation, which happened only in 1990. You can read about it, as well as how Sophia herself miraculously escaped widespread repression in Budaibo during her business trip here.