An article by Anna Vichkitova was published on the website of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (New York University), mentioning the KARAGODIN Investigation:

Inherited Silence: Russian Family History

What defines post-Soviet family history is not what has been transmitted, like the inherited pain of Holocaust survivors’ descendants, but what has been missed.

Denis Karagodin, a resident of Tomsk, spent nearly a decade investigating the execution of his great-grandfather by the Soviet secret police. He created an open-access website to document the story, identify those complicit in the crime, and recover the case from archival records. Karagodin is not a professional historian; his work is driven by a personal search for justice and truth. His project is part of a broader trend in post-Soviet Russia aimed at restoring family narratives that were erased. <…>

Source: Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
Publication date: November 26, 2025
URL: https://jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/inherited-silence-russian-family-history