Azari Plisetsky's memoirs of the years spent behind the barbed wire (excerpt from the documentary film by Sergei Shafir "Behind the zone").

Rakhil Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (1902-1993) - wife of Mikhail Plisetskiy, a Soviet economic figure and diplomat, Soviet silent film actress, people's artist of the USSR

Born on March 4, 1902 in the city of Wilno (Poland), by nationality – a Jew. Before her arrest, she successfully starred in the films "Second wife", "Leper", "Valley of tears". Condemned by a Special meeting of the NKVD of the USSR on March 16, 1938 for a term of 8 years as a "socially dangerous element". From Butyrskaya prison she was delivered to Karlag on may 4, 1938 and distributed to "ALZHIR". In 1939, she was transferred to a free settlement in Chimkent, where she taught at a dance school. Mother of the famous ballerina Maya Plisetskaya.

Plisetskiy Mikhail Emmanuilovich (1899-1938) Soviet economic and statesman, diplomat. He worked in the VTSIK, commissariats of foreign Affairs and foreign trade. Since 1932-head of the Soviet coal concession on the island of Svalbard (trust "Arktikugol"). At the same time, he was the Consul General of the USSR on this Norwegian island. He was engaged in the production of the first Soviet films at the studios " Bukhkino "and"Star of the East".

Arrested on April 30, 1937 on charges of espionage, shot on January 8, 1938. He was rehabilitated on March 3, 1956