From the late 1930s, Ukhtizhemlag prisoners who died in the infirmary of camp outpost No. 7 were buried on Mount Vetlosyan. There were both common and individual graves. The total number buried there has not been established. Individual names are known: the Komi writer and political figure A.A. Maegov (pseudonym Varysh; died 30 January 1942); the Catholic priest Stanislav Shulminsky (died 20 November 1941).
Today the burial ground has almost vanished; its territory has been used for industrial buildings or turned into allotments. In 1989 thanks to the efforts of the Ukhta-Pechora Memorial Society, with the support of the town administration, an Orthodox cross was erected there with the inscription, “To the slain innocents, Memorial, Ukhta, 1989”. In 1994 the cross was restored.
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 Syktyvkar Kirul.)
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 it lists were sentenced in the same five years: most of the 4,223 who died in captivity, were convicted (3,062) then.
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Civil rites and Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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not preserved
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts and 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)
