sentences:  camp document of 12 October 1938, signed by Mandelstam) and charged with "counter-revolutionary activities".Four months later, on 2 August 1938, Mandelstam was sentenced to five years in correction camps.He arrived at the Vtoraya Rechka (Second River) transit camp near Vladivostok in Russia's Far East and managed to get a note out to his wife asking for warm clothes; he never received them.