The burial ground for prisoners building Vorkutlag mineshafts Nos. 5 and 7, living at nearby camp outposts, was located in the Severny (northern) settlement, at the confluence of the Vorkuta and Ayach-Yaga rivers. They were buried in both individual and common graves.
In the mid-1990s, the Ukrainian Association of the Repressed erected a memorial cross in the cemetery bearing a headboard that read, in Ukrainian: “Never forget the Victims of Communist Terror, Warriors for Ukraine’s Freedom”. In 2007, a monument was added to the cemetery commemorating Hungarian POWs who died in the camps of Vorkuta. Two years later Lithuanian researcher Gintautas Alekna studied the cemetery, carried out a photo survey, and drew up a plan of the disposition of the Lithuanian burials. Four graves with headboards were discovered.
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
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not established
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not delineated
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Note on the 2005 expedition by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
