The burial ground for prisoners building Vorkutlag mineshafts Nos. 5 and 7, living at nearby camp outposts, was located in the Severny (northern) settlement, at the confluence of the Vorkuta and Ayach-Yaga rivers. They were buried in both individual and common graves.
In the mid-1990s, the Ukrainian Association of the Repressed erected a memorial cross in the cemetery bearing a headboard that read, in Ukrainian: “Never forget the Victims of Communist Terror, Warriors for Ukraine’s Freedom”. In 2007, a monument was added to the cemetery commemorating Hungarian POWs who died in the camps of Vorkuta. Two years later Lithuanian researcher Gintautas Alekna studied the cemetery, carried out a photo survey, and drew up a plan of the disposition of the Lithuanian burials. Four graves with headboards were discovered.
Information about some deceased Gulag inmates can be found in Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database with its 3 million entries, or in the Open List database (“Victims of Political Repression in the USSR, 1917-1991”).
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016), includes biographical entries on 52,785 who were sent to the camps in Komi. As the Memorial online database (2021) shows, the region’s Book of Remembrance lists 10,364 who died in the camps but does not specify where.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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Commemorative masses, Excursions
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Several burial mounds and depressions in the soil; graveside crosses
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not established
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not delineated
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Note on the 2005 expedition by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
