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UFA Sergievskoe graveyard*** Executions & Burials

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Date of burial
1930s
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Address
Bashkortostan Republic, Ufa, Sergievskoe cemetery
Access in a populated area
Public transport
On foot
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Secret interment of executed
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Burial ground and/or commemorative site
Cultural and/or educational purposes
Excursions
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Local
Памятник уфимцам – жертвам политических репрессий на Сергиевском кладбище Уфы
Памятник уфимцам – жертвам политических репрессий на Сергиевском кладбище Уфы
Background

Ufa’s Sergievskoe graveyard, founded in the mid-18th century, was closed for burials in the 1970s. During the 1930s executions and burials took place there, before and during the Great Terror, as did the burial of those who died in the city’s prisons.

The burials took place in various parts of the graveyard and most were subject to reburial. It is known that about one thousand bodies were buried in a gulley in the centre of the graveyard. In 2007 a monument to inhabitants of Ufa who had fallen victim to political repression was erected there, using funds raised for the purpose by group of Ufa businessmen, I. Bikbulatov and others.

(NOTE In a 2012 survey 60% of respondents in Bashkortostan declared themselves Muslim.)

Books of Remembrance

A Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression in the Bashkortostan Republic (7 vols, 1997-2011) contains over 50,000 biographical entries.

Among them are those shot (6,014), mainly but not exclusively during the Great Terror; 25,846 sent to the camps – in 1930-1933 (11,891) and again in 1937-1938 (8,220); and 7,649 who were exiled as “dekulakized” peasant families in 1930 and 1931. These totals were calculated from Memorial’s online database.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
have not survived
not defined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Ufa City Administration. Since 2012 the cemetery has the status of a historic memorial
Sources and bibliography

[ original texts and hyperlinks ]

S. Valieva, “Secrets of old graveyards preserve the memory of many victims of repression”, Leninets (Ufa), 12 August 1989

Reply No. 01-02-8451/7, dated 24 March 2014, from Ufa City Administration to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

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