The Khabarovsk Process section has been updated with new documents

The Grodekovsky Museum's holdings have been replenished with electronic copies of documents about the Khabarovsk process, which were provided by the archive of the Russian Federal Security Service Department for Khabarovsk Krai. The documents are placed in the section "Khabarovsk Process" of the exposition "Development of Khabarovsk Krai in 1923-1953" and are available to museum visitors.

New exhibits are represented by declassified materials of interrogations of Japanese prisoners of war, former employees of the Japanese military mission in Harbin, detachments #643 and #731. The materials of the investigation formed the basis of the Khabarovsk trial. Khabarovsk trial - a trial conducted by the military tribunal of the Primorsky Military District over a group (12 persons) of former servicemen of the Japanese Kwantung Army accused of creation and use of bacteriological weapons, criminal experiments on humans and preparation of bacteriological warfare against the Soviet Union during World War II.

The trial was held in Khabarovsk from December 25 to December 30, 1949 in open court sessions in the building of the District House of Officers of the Soviet Army (now ODORA).

Among the museum's new exhibits are handwritten testimonies of prisoners of war in Japanese, handwritten translations of interrogation protocols in Russian, and typewritten transcripts of interrogations. Photographs of Japanese saboteurs are interesting: they are depicted in summer in the forest area in camouflage of leaves and branches. Among the documents handed over, a separate block of documents testifies to the Japanese army's 1943 plan to strike Blagoveshchensk and the Amur railroad: a scheme of the offensive plan of the 3rd front of the Kwantung Army, witness testimony deciphering the details of the plan.

The confessions of the Japanese prisoners of war provide quite a wide range of factual material on how the development of bacteriological weapons was conducted (for example, how the breeding of fleas was organized, their "packing" into special porcelain bombs, how units of the Japanese army were engaged in catching rats and competed for the title of the best according to the results of the "billet", on the experiments conducted by Chinese and Russian prisoners, men and women): The reactions of the subjects to lethal injections and the ingestion of poison with food were scrupulously recorded (speed of action of poisons, etc.).д.).

Also new materials in the exposition give an idea of how the investigation was conducted during the preparation of the Khabarovsk trial: what questions were asked by the investigators, how the process of inquiry was organized.

The Grodekovsky Museum expresses its gratitude for cooperation and provided materials to Maxim Mukhin, Head of the Federal Security Service of Russia in Khabarovsk Krai.