A burial ground was created on the banks of the Ukhtarka river for one of the outposts of Ukhtizhemlag. Prisoners were buried there in the 1930s and 1940s.
In 2000 the territory of the former camp was studied by an exploratory group from Ukhta Memorial Society led by A.I. Galkin. 300 metres from the camp were discovered two adjoining graveyards – one for the prisoners and one for the free employees. Markers have survived on certain of the free employees’ graves. Small burial mounds, laid out in even rows, are visible in the prisoners burial ground. Areas of collapsed soil, perhaps indicating common graves, have also been recorded.
In 2000 a memorial cross was erected at the site with the inscription, “To the victims of Ukhtarka, 1930s-1940s. Ukhta, Borovoi settlement. Memorial, 8 October 2000”.
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016), includes biographical entries on 60,000 who were shot or sent to the camps.
Drawing on that source, the Memorial online database (2025) includes 129,473 victims in the Komi Republic. (See Nizhny Chov.)
It names almost 55,000 sent to the camps, where over 10,000 died: half were convicted (including the majority who subsequently died) in 1936-40.
Тhe database confirms the same pattern for prisoners of the Ukhtizhemlag system: almost 10,000 of the 13,683 were sentenced in the same five years: most of the 4,223 who died in captivity, were convicted (3,062) then.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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burial mounds in even rows; characteristic subsidence over possible common graves
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not determined
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partially delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Archive of Ukhta-Pechora Memorial (Ukhta)
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)
