Title: Red Army soldier _x000D_ _x000D_ "At the beginning of 1944, by order of the People's Commissariat of Defense, Kalmyks were expelled from all fronts and military districts, Sergeants and rank-and-file personnel, as well as cadets from military schools. They were enlisted in 6th Reserve Regiment, a Rifle Brigade, which was stationed at the Kungur station of the Perm railway, and then sent by teams to the construction of the Shirokov hydroelectric power station. About 4 thousand soldiers and cadets were recalled from the active army. These were mainly people of Kalmyk nationality. The frontline Kalmyks were recalled to the rear under the pretext of creating a Kalmyk national unit in the Urals. _x000D_ The servicemen greeted these explanations with satisfaction, but already on the road, and especially upon arrival at Shiroklag, they understood that they had been deceived ... There, somewhere in the Middle Urals, in the town of Shirokovo, the Kalmyks were turned into slaves, they were driven to work by deception in a forest concentration camp. _x000D_ Among those who ended up in Shiroklag was Sangadzhiev Badma Kokuevich. His name is listed in the lists of Kalmyk military personnel recalled from the fronts in 1944-1945. _x000D_ Badma Kokuevich was born in 1925 in Kalmykia, Privolzhsky ulus, Nitsyansky village, received 7 grade education, was a member of the Komsomol and was drafted by the Volga Comissariat in 1943. Sangadzhiev B.K. served in the active army from March 1943 to January 1944 in 85th Rifle Division, 167th Artillery Regiment, rank of private. _x000D_ The Book of Memory says that Sangadzhiev B.K. arrived in Shiroklag on 03/28/1944, demobilized on 03/06/1945, sent to the Krasnoyarsk Territory to the special commandant's office of the Kozul District of the NKVD. At the Kalmyk State University, Badma Kokuevich worked as a watchman. He was characterized by modesty and restraint. The war broke this man's life. _x000D_ Unfortunately, his memories of this time have not been preserved. We can only imagine what kind of inhuman torments, hardships, torments he had to endure in Shiroklag. But there are poems that convey the emotional pain of those who were unjustly sent to GULAG. The camp was new, with secret police, with a pack of dogs, slave labor, hard, worse than Shiroklag prison. The gate is wide, with an arch, There was a sentry on the tower. A sentinel with a learned shepherd dog was on duty at night sometimes. There the Kalmyks died like flies from various diseases ... The head watched the brigade labour and demanded to fulfill the plan ... Today we realize at what a huge price was paid for the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Among those who contributed was Badma Kokuevich Sangadzhiev. For his military services in 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (No. of award document: 87; date of award document: 04/06/1985; entry No. 1519668401).