Part Three: "Millions All Around Were Suffering, And I Was on an Equal Footing with Them." The footage was filmed in the Moscow Region. Memorial is publishing the thirteenth film of the "Gulag Right Here" project. In the third part of the film, Sofia Georgievna Fedina talks about life in the camp during and after the war, about the fight against despair and faith, about meeting her future husband Boris Fedin, a military doctor who was captured, escaped from captivity and sent to a Soviet camp, about her release and meeting with her family, the seven-year wait for her husband to return from the camp, about the search for her father's grave and the discovery of the execution ground near Mariinsk, where her father, Georgy Vukolovich Nepomnyashchikh, was shot and buried. Sofia Georgievna Fedina (Nepomnyashchikh) was born on September 8, 1913, in the village of Lebedyanskoye, Tomsk Governorate (now Kemerovo Region), into the family of Archpriest Fr. Georgy Vukolovich Nepomnyashchikh and his wife Valentina Vasilyevna (née Sokolova). Sofia Georgievna's maternal great-uncle and godfather Nikifor Astashevsky was the first Novosibirsk (Novo-Nikolaevsk) Metropolitan, ordained a bishop by Patriarch Tikhon. After the revolution, Sofia Georgievna's father was deprived of civil rights, and Sofia and her older sister were expelled from school as the children of a priest. In 1932, Sofia was studying to be an announcer in Saratov, when she learned that her father, Georgy Vukolovich Nepomnyashchikh, had been arrested. In 1933, Sofia worked on the radio in Altai with her older brother Nikolai. That same year, Nikolai was arrested and shot. Sofia was fired from her job without any educational documents. Soon Sofia Georgievna married Ivan Grigorievich Melnikov, thanks to which she got the opportunity to work at a school and receive a teacher training by correspondence. In 1937, Ivan Grigorievich Melnikov was arrested, and during one of her visits to prison, Sofia Georgievna herself was arrested. Sofia Georgievna was sentenced to 10 years in the camps and 5 years of deprivation of rights. In 1937, Sofia Georgievna's father Georgy Vukolovich Nepomnyashchikh and her husband Ivan Grigorievich Melnikov were shot. Sofia Georgievna was sent to Taishet, where she worked in logging and on railroad construction, then in the medical unit. In the camp, Sofia Georgievna met military doctor Boris Fedorovich Fedin, who was captured wounded, escaped, returned to his own people and was sentenced to 25 years in the camps. A year before the liberation, Sofia Georgievna married Boris Fedorovich. Sofia Georgievna was released on August 17, 1948, at which time she was expecting a child. Boris Fedorovich was released 7 years later. Sofia Georgievna waited for her husband together with her son in the city of Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region, where she lived with her mother Valentina Vasilievna and sister. And in 1954, Sofia Georgievna moved with her family to Moscow, where she worked until retirement in the library of the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Sofia Georgievna tried for many years to find the burial place of her father, priest Georgy Vukolovich Nepomnyashchikh. Her search was crowned with success only in 2008. The priests of the St. Nicholas Church in the city of Mariinsk, with the help of local residents, found the firing range where Father Georgy and many prisoners of the Mariinsk prison were shot. On August 5, 2008, in Mariinsk, at the site of the execution, a five-meter-high cross with a memorial plaque was erected in the city cemetery. At the same time, it was decided to build an Orthodox historical complex in Mariinsk dedicated to the memory of the victims of political repression. In 2009, at the opening of the Memorial, Sofia Georgievna was awarded a silver medal "For Faith and Goodness". Sofia Georgievna wrote a book about her life, about the camps, about the Sokolov-Nepomnyashchikh family. On September 25, 2018, Sofia Georgievna Fedina (Nepomnyashchikh) passed away. We warmly thank Sofia Georgievna's son Evgeny Borisovich Fedin and daughter-in-law Tatyana Afanasyevna Melnichenko for their many years of assistance in organizing the filming. "Gulag Right Here" is a project of video interviews with people who went through the repressions of the Soviet period. The heroes of the project are former prisoners of Soviet camps, children of "enemies of the people", children born in camps, kept in "children's barracks" or sent to special orphanages, dispossessed kulaks, representatives of deported peoples, people persecuted for their religious beliefs, members of underground youth organizations, participants in the dissident movement, as well as NKVD employees and their descendants. The goal of the project is to tell about the repressions in the USSR through the specific fate and tragedy of an individual and to find the origins of the catastrophe that is happening to us today. The "Gulag Right Here" project is a development of the "My Gulag" project, whose authors and creators have been working under the auspices of Memorial since the spring of 2022. The statements and opinions of the project's heroes do not represent the position of Memorial or reflect the views of the authors of the project. Project: Gulag Right Here Director: Lyudmila Sadovnikova Camera operators: Veronika Solovieva, Anton Androsov Design: Arkady Gridnev Technical editor: Sergey Samsonov Russian Memorial, NIPC Memorial, 2023