Nazino Affair (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nazino affair was the mass deportation of 6,000 people, 4,000 of whom died, on Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in 1933. The small, isolated Western Siberian island is located about 800 km north of Tomsk, in Alexandrovsky District, Tomsk Oblast near the confluence of the Ob and Nazina Rivers. It is called "Death Island" or "Cannibal Island" because about 4,000 out of 6,000 Soviet "special settlers" died there during the summer of 1933, after being abandoned with only flour for food, few tools and little clothing or shelter. A report on the events was sent to Joseph Stalin by Vassilii Arsenievich Velichko. The report was distributed by Lazar Kaganovich to members of the Politburo, and was preserved in an archive in Novosibirsk. It states that 6,114 "outdated elements" (also known as "declasse and socially harmful elements" or classless people) arrived on the island in late May 1933.