Mikhail Ivanovich Shorin, the plant superintendent, is the son of the Gorokhovets industrialist Ivan Alexandrovich Shorin. After the Great October Revolution he gave away the Gorokhovets boiler and shipbuilding plant to the workers that established control over production.
In 1924 Mikhail Ivanovich Shorin was charged with sabotage in Gorokhovets as if he had, on his own initiative, arranged for the supply of defective rivets made in Gorokhovets to Chardzhou to assemble the sections of barges on the Amu Darya. Shorin’s innocence was proved by the chief accountant of the plant, who provided all the documents.
In 1928, in Moscow, Mikhail Shorin joined the People’s Commissariat of Shipbuilding, from which by 1930 the All-Union River Shipbuilding Association ‘Rechsoyuzverf’ came into being, which existed until 1933.
Later Shorin was employed by the General Directorate of River Shipbuilding Industry, where until 1935 he worked as a specialist supervising the activities of several shipyards in the Soviet Union. In 1935 Mikhail Ivanovich was sent to exercise control with the subsequent inclusion in the fieldwork in Sretensk. Soon he took up the post of technical director and put a lot of effort into starting production. As a result, the shipyard exceeded the plan of 1936. But even such work was blamed on him as misuse of resources.
Mikhail Ivanovich was arrested on April 14 and brought to Chita on May 15, 1937. The investigation lasted for a long time, although the fabricated materials of denunciations and interrogations appeared quickly enough.
The main points of indictment under Article 58 were the traditional ‘participation in the Trotsky-led conspiracy’, as well as the expert reports on improper work planning, fabricated within the walls of the distant Department of River Shipbuilding Industry, and financial improprieties to which Shorin had nothing to do with.
Nevertheless, Mikhail Shorin was sentenced to 15 years in prison and sent to the labor camp ‘Bukachacha’ in the Chita Region. Mikhail Ivanovich did not break down. He continued to defend himself, fighting for his honor and dignity and believing in the correctness of his affairs. But his complaints remained unanswered.
Mikhail Ivanovich Shorin was rehabilitated in 1957.
In 1924 Mikhail Ivanovich Shorin was charged with sabotage in Gorokhovets as if he had, on his own initiative, arranged for the supply of defective rivets made in Gorokhovets to Chardzhou to assemble the sections of barges on the Amu Darya. Shorin’s innocence was proved by the chief accountant of the plant, who provided all the documents.
In 1928, in Moscow, Mikhail Shorin joined the People’s Commissariat of Shipbuilding, from which by 1930 the All-Union River Shipbuilding Association ‘Rechsoyuzverf’ came into being, which existed until 1933.
Later Shorin was employed by the General Directorate of River Shipbuilding Industry, where until 1935 he worked as a specialist supervising the activities of several shipyards in the Soviet Union. In 1935 Mikhail Ivanovich was sent to exercise control with the subsequent inclusion in the fieldwork in Sretensk. Soon he took up the post of technical director and put a lot of effort into starting production. As a result, the shipyard exceeded the plan of 1936. But even such work was blamed on him as misuse of resources.
Mikhail Ivanovich was arrested on April 14 and brought to Chita on May 15, 1937. The investigation lasted for a long time, although the fabricated materials of denunciations and interrogations appeared quickly enough.
The main points of indictment under Article 58 were the traditional ‘participation in the Trotsky-led conspiracy’, as well as the expert reports on improper work planning, fabricated within the walls of the distant Department of River Shipbuilding Industry, and financial improprieties to which Shorin had nothing to do with.
Nevertheless, Mikhail Shorin was sentenced to 15 years in prison and sent to the labor camp ‘Bukachacha’ in the Chita Region. Mikhail Ivanovich did not break down. He continued to defend himself, fighting for his honor and dignity and believing in the correctness of his affairs. But his complaints remained unanswered.
Mikhail Ivanovich Shorin was rehabilitated in 1957.
