Delibash, Elizaveta Aleksandrovna
Born in Minusinsk, in 1928. After her parents' arrest, she lived with her paternal grandmother in Leningrad until 1931, when she was taken to be reunited with her mother in Sol'vychegodsk, her mother's place of exile. In 1932, she briefly returned to Leningrad with her mother, who, in 1934, signed up as a voluntary worker at the Vetlag camp and took her daughter with her. Elizaveta attended a school at Vetlag for one year, before being taken back to her father's relatives in Moscow by a female detainee who had just been released. This was done at the request of Elizaveta's mother, when she too was arrested. However, from Moscow she was sent to her uncle in Leningrad, and, in the summer of 1936, to her grandfather in Georgia who concealed her from the authorities and taught her at home. In 1938, she again returned to Leningrad, to live with her mother's sister. She was evacuated during the war, first to Kazan, and then to Georgia. In 1946, she was able to return to Leningrad where, the following year, she enrolled at the University's Philological Faculty, graduating in 1952. Fearing that she might be arrested otherwise, she decided to go to the Krasnodarsk region to work as a teacher. In 1954, she married and moved back to Leningrad with her husband, finding work as a librarian and then as an editor. She has a daughter and two grandchildren.

Mother: Delibash, Nina Zakharovna (1903-1937). Born in the Georgian village of Rusi, the daughter of a post master, she married in 1925 and, in 1927, followed her husband into exile in Minusinsk. In 1928, she returned to Moscow and enrolled at the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy, working simultaneously as a secretary for N. Khlemev's Actors' Studio. She was arrested on 16 January 1930 in connection with her husband's re-arrest. On 13 March, she was sentenced by an OGPU Collegium to 3 years' exile in Siberia. She was sent first to Sol'vychegodsk, and then to Ustiuga, being released in September 1932. In 1934, she signed up as a voluntary worker at Vetlag, the camp to which her husband had been sent. She was arrested there in April 1936 and, on 19 November, sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to 10 years' imprisonment. She was confined in the Solovetskii Camp of Special Significance and, on 9 October 1937, sentenced to death by the NKVD Special Troika of Leningrad Oblast. On 2 November, she was executed by firing squad at Sandarmokh. Posthumously rehabilitated on 5 August 1988 (the rehabilitation was confirmed on 10 January 1989).

Father: Iosilevich, Aleksandr Solomonovich (1899-1936). Born in St Petersburg, the son of a printer, at the age of fifteen he became involved in revolutionary activities and joined the Bolsheviks in early 1917, being assigned to Ekaterinoslavl as a member of the Commission for the Organisation of the Red Guard. He then worked for the newspaper 'Soldatskaia Pravda'. In March 1918, he began work in the state security organs in Petrograd (the Cheka) and was transferred to Moscow. It was around this time that he married his first wife, Elizaveta Drabkina, from whom he was later divorced; he married a second time, in 1925, to N. Z. Delibash. In April 1926, he left OGPU and successfully completed his studies at the Institute of National Economy. He was arrested on 31 December 1927, accused of 'slander against the OGPU organs,' and, by a resolution of an OGPU Collegium on 13 January 1928, was sentenced to 3 years' exile in Siberia. He was sent to serve his sentence in Minusinsk but was granted an early release in 1929. In Moscow, however, he was rearrested on 16 January 1930 and was sentenced to 10 years in a labour camp by a resolution of an OGPU Collegium on 13 February 1930. He was taken to the Sukhobezvodnoe camp in Vetlag, where he was allowed to live together with his wife and daughter. In April 1936, he was arrested in the camp and subsequently sentenced to death by a resolution of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR passed on 19 May 1937. Executed by firing squad.