This burial ground of the White Sea Canal Camp complex, Belbaltlag for short, is seven kilometres from the Letnerechenskoye settlement. It contains the bodies of Belbaltlag prisoners who built the Canal (1931-1933) and those subsequently imprisoned in the outposts and divisions of the system between 1933 and 1941.
The Commemorative Lists of Karelia, 1937-1938, compiled by Ivan Chukhin & Yury Dmitriev, were published in 2002 (1,087 pp). The online version contains biographical entries for 14,038 individuals.
The online Memorial database (2025) lists 13,408 victims in Karelia. (See Petrozavodsk.) 11,317 were shot. 1,998 were sent to a variety of camps where 424 died (Kargopolag, Sevvostlag, Unzhlag, Pechorlag and Taishetlag).
From a variety of sources the database names 41 who died in Belbaltlag; the “Open List” names 1,615 who did time there.
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commemorative services, excursions
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Unified State Register of Sites of Cultural Heritage (monuments of historical and cultural significance) of the nations of the Russian Federation
M. Sizov, “Crosses on the locks”, Vera: khristianskaya gazeta Severa Rossii, Sept 1999 [retrieved on 28 December 2024]
Judgement of the Belomorsky district court, dated 16 May 2013, making obligatory the technical certification of a site of cultural heritage
