The burial ground of prisoners based at Vorkutlag camp outposts Nos 25, 26 and 27 was located in the Zapadnoe (western) settlement of the Vorkuta City district. Those who died there were buried both in individual and common graves. In August 2010, the cemetery was studied by an expedition from the “Towns and Cities of northern Russia” museum at School No 14 in Vorgashor settlement. It was led by researcher I.V. Vitman. The expedition found crosses dating from 1954-1955 on certain graves.
Тhe Memorial online database (2025) includes 129,473 victims in the Komi Republic. (See Nizhny Chov.)
It names almost 55,000 who were sent to the camps, where more than 10,000 died.
The database lists almost ten thousand prisoners in the Vorkutlag branch of Ukhtpechlag, 1,013 of whom died there between 1935 and 1938. (In 1950 there were 63,000 prisoners in Vorkutlag: see The Gulag in Northwest Russia, 1931-1960.)
| 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, some fences
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not established
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not delineated
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Communication from I.V. Vitman, Vorkuta 2010 (archive of RIC Memorial, St Petersburg)
