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.
Information about some deceased Gulag inmates 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 Services, excursions
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from time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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A few 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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Communication from I.V. Vitman (Vorkuta 2020) – archive of RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
“The southern settlement”, Vanishing Towns website
