VORKUTA Mulda UI settlement (c)* Vorkutlag burials | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

VORKUTA Mulda UI settlement (c)* Vorkutlag burials

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№11-09

Date of burial
1940s-1950s
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Address
Komi Republic, Vorkuta, Mulda settlement (non-residential)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Excursions
Ceremonial events
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Background

This Vorkutlag prisoners burial ground is located in Mulda settlement (currently non-residential) within the Vorkuta City district. The burials were made in common and also in individual graves.

In August 2010, the burial ground 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.

Books of Remembrance

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.)

Ceremonies
DateNature of ceremoniesOrganiser or responsible personParticipantsFrequency
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Commemorative masses, Excursions
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From time to time
Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Several burial mounds and depressions in the soil; graveside crosses
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Vorkuta urban district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ original texts and hyperlinks ]

Communication from I.V. Vitman (Vorkuta 2010) – archive of RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

Reply from the Komi Republic Ministry of Culture (No 06-17-1230 of 30 April 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

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