In the early 1940s camp outposts of Sevzheldorlag were located in Synya. The prisoners were building the North Pechora railroad. The Synya State farm which supplied Sevpechlag was located here; there was a women’s section at that outpost. The location of two camp cemeteries in the 1940s is known (neither have survived).
In 2007 the area of the burials was studied by an exploratory group of pupils from middle school No. 56 in the Synya settlement and staff from the Pechora regional history museum. On the edge of the 1940s burials the expedition members erected an Orthodox cross.
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 over 10,000 died there.
Drawing on that and other sources the Memorial online database (2025) lists 1,221 individuals who were held in Sevzheldorlag (848 sentenced in 1940) and names 94 who died in captivity but does not specify where they died or were buried. (And see The Gulag in Northwest Russia, 1931-1960.)
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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have not survived
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
“Report on the work of exploratory groups, 2007”, Archive of the Pechora regional history museum
“Burials of prisoners from Sevzheldorlag and the Synya camp farm”, The Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 26 May 2022; not accessible]
