The Kharkiv GULAG. Non-fictional stories from prison life
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The reader’s attention is invited to a description of what we consider the most dreadful penal institution in Ukraine’s criminal-executive system — Alekseevskaya Colony No. 25 in Kharkiv.
Bordun, V. V. The Kharkiv GULAG. Non-fictional stories from prison life / V. V. Bordun; foreword by E. E. Zakharov. — Kharkiv: ‘Human Rights’ Publishing House LLC, 2019. — 184 p. ISBN 978-617-7391-54-7 The reader’s attention is invited to a description of what we consider the most dreadful penal institution in Ukraine’s criminal-executive system — Alekseevskaya Colony No. 25 in Kharkiv. The author is an elderly man who spent 34 years in confinement between 1975 and 2015, with only brief intervals. His final period of incarceration lasted 18 years, following an extended sentence for malicious disobedience to the administration under Article 391 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.