On October 28, 1924, Ivan Zaitsev was arrested by the United State Political Directorate and spent 7 months in Butyrskaya Prison. On January 2, 1925, by the decision of a Special Meeting at the Collegium of the United State Political Directorate, he received 3 years in camps. In June 1925, he was sent in a convoy to Solovetsky Camp and on June 16 he arrived at the Kemsky Transit Point, and then on June 18 with a group of prisoners he was sent to Bolshoy Solovetsky Island. Here he began working as a forestry overseer in the forestry during forest cleaning operations, later worked on unloading icebreakers in the White Sea, on watch at the Solovetsky Mayak, and also got on "general work" for refusing the offer of the camp leadership to write a note about the civil war for the magazine "Solovetsky Islands". In September 1926, he first ended up in a punishment cell, and then for three months in a isolation cell. He is one of the few surviving eyewitnesses who visited the "Sekirka" – in the punishment cell in the temple on Sekirnaya Gora. In April 1926, excerpts from Zaitsev's memoirs "From the Recently Experienced" were published in No. 4 and No. 5 of the journal "Solovetsky Islands" (the monthly journal of the United State Political Directorate). Alternative version In 2017, Vladimir Markovchin, a Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said that, according to declassified documents, after arriving in the Soviet Union, Zaitsev began to cooperate with the United State Political Directorate in carrying out an operation to withdraw from Shanghai to Soviet Union of ships of the Kolchak Military Squadron. This operation was successfully carried out.
On October 28, 1924, Ivan Zaitsev was arrested by the Joint State Political Directorate and spent 7 months in Butyrskaya Prison. On January 2, 1925, by the decision of a Special Meeting at the Collegium of the Joint State Political Directorate, he received 3 years in camps. In June 1925, he was sent in a convoy to Solovetsky Camp and on June 16 he arrived at the Kemsky Transit Point, and then on June 18 with a group of prisoners he was sent to Bolshoy Solovetsky Island. Here he began working as a forestry overseer in the forestry during forest cleaning operations, later worked on unloading icebreakers in the White Sea, on watch at the Solovetsky Mayak, and also got on "general work" for refusing the offer of the camp leadership to write a note about the civil war for the magazine "Solovetsky Islands". In September 1926, he first ended up in a punishment cell, and then for three months in a isolation cell. He is one of the few surviving eyewitnesses who visited the "Sekirka" – in the punishment cell in the temple on Sekirnaya Gora. In April 1926, excerpts from Zaitsev's memoirs "From the Recently Experienced" were published in No. 4 and No. 5 of the journal "Solovetsky Islands" (the monthly journal of the Joint State Political Directorate). Alternative version In 2017, Vladimir Markovchin, a Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said that, according to declassified documents, after arriving in the Soviet Union, Zaitsev began to cooperate with the Joint State Political Directorate in carrying out an operation to withdraw from Shanghai to Soviet Union of ships of the Kolchak Military Squadron. This operation was successfully carried out.
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