In the 1940s the Novy Bor state farm was a special outpost of Vorkutlag. Deported Soviet Germans, mainly labourers invalided out of the Vorkuta coal mines, were transferred there from June 1944. Before 1946 they were held as prisoners. A section of wooded land to the west of the settlement was allotted to them as a burial ground. In 1944-1945 they were not permitted to bury those who died, and all burials were anonymous, the graves bearing no name markers. The numbers buried in the special cemetery have not been established and there are no lists of names. Later they were allowed to bury their dead in the settlement graveyard.
A memorial cross at the former camp burial ground was erected on 28 August 1999, thanks to the efforts of A.T. Kurengin, the director and founder of the farm’s Museum of Labour and Military Glory. The text reads: “Repressed Russian Germans were buried here in 1944-1945”.
The 2021 Memorial online database includes 129,473 victims in the Komi Republic.
It lists over 63,000 who were brought to the republic as forced settlers or deportees. Among them 730 were sent to Novy Bor, the majority in the early 1930s (455).
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Civil rites and Commemorative Services
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Subsidence over burials
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Archive of the Novy Bor State Farm’s “Museum of Labour and Military Glory”
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)
