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.
Information about deceased Gulag inmates, where it survives, 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, of whom 10,364 died there. As the Memorial online database (2021) shows, the region’s Book of Remembrance does not specify where they died and were buried.
| 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 determined
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not delineated
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[ 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)
