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

VORKUTA Yuzhny settlement (c) Vorkutlag burials

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Date of burial
1940s-1950s
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Address
Komi Republc, Vorkuta, Yuzhny settlement
Access in a populated area
On foot
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Ceremonial events
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Background

The cemetery of the Vorkutlag infirmary was located in Yuzhny (southern) settlement. Prisoners who died in the hospital, and at the camp outposts of mineshafts Nos 9, 10 and 11, were buried here. So were prisoners who worked at the Vorkutlag Teplichnoe farm. They were buried both in individual and common graves.

Books of Remembrance

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 11,522 died there. The Memorial online database (2025) lists 5,335 prisoners arrived at the Vorkutlag branch of Ukhtpechlag between 1936 and 1939 and 516 who died there. The region’s Book of Remembrance does not specify where they died and were buried.

And see The Gulag in Northwest Russia (1931-1960).

Ceremonies
DateNature of ceremoniesOrganiser or responsible personParticipantsFrequency
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Commemorative Services, excursions
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from time to time
Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
A few 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 City Administration.
Sources and bibliography

[ original texts and URLs ]

Communication from I.V. Vitman (Vorkuta 2020) – archive of RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

“The southern settlement”, Vanishing Towns website

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