Sozerko Malsagov Explained

Sozerko Artagovich Malsagov (Russian: Мальсагов, Созерко Артаганович) (June 17, 1895 - February 25, 1976), was Russian Imperial Army officer known for his memoir about his escape from the Solovki prison camp.^{[1] [2]}

Malsagov, together with four other inmates (Матвей Сазонов,Yuri Bezsonov, Pole Эдвард Мальбродский, Василий Приблудин.) escaped from Solovki on May 18, 1925, and run into Finland. Bezsonov also wrote a similar memoir.

Memoir

• Соловки. Остров пыток и смерти (Записки бежавшего с Соловков офицера С.А. Мальсагова), 1925, in Russian emigre newspaper Сегодня, Riga^[1]
• S.A. Malsagoff. An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North, London, A.M. Philpot LTD., 1926. Translated by F.H.Lyon.^[3]
• Адский остров. Советская тюрьма на далеком севере, 1996, translated from English by Sh. Yandiyev (Ш. Яндиев)

Notes and References

1. http://www.gazavat.ru/personalies2.php?people=79 МАЛЬСАГОВ СОЗЕРКО АРТАГАНОВИЧ
2. https://vgulage.name/authors/malsagov-sozerko-artaganovich/ Мальсагов Созерко Артаганович 1893 – 1976 военный
3. https://archive.org/details/1926AnIslandHellMalsagoff An Island Hell