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Escape
In August 1932 his wife and son visited him again and they then set out on their epic escape. After a few weeks of trekking through rugged terrain and suffering hardships due to a lack of provisions and poor weather, they were finally able to reach Finland. Andrei gives an account of the escape, filmed on the real location in the Russian arctic, in Andrew Macqueen's documentary 'Gulag' (1999).

In April 1933, the London Times published a letter from Tchernavin, giving a brief account of the methods of 'moral and physical torture' used by the GPU

In 1934 Tchernavin and his family moved to England where he continued his scientific work as an ichthyologist. His book I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets and his wife's book Escape From The Soviets published in 1934 were among the first to give testimony of life under the Soviets, the GPU 's operations and the Gulag and include a description of their escape.