The Vorkutlag prisoners at the Rudnik settlement built a narrow-gauge railway to mineshaft No 18 (Rudnik means a pit). Those who died were interred in a burial ground one kilometre west of the Rudnik settlement and 1.5 kms from the embankment of the now dismantled railway. Camp burials were in both individual or mass graves. In August 2010, researcher A.V. Kalmykov studied the burial ground and found graveside crosses dating back to 1954-1955.
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In July 2023, a local deputy reported that a concrete cross at the Rudnik settlement erected in 1997 in memory of Polish inmates of the Gulag had been taken down by vandals.
The Memorial online database (2025) includes 129,473 victims in the Komi Republic. (See Nizhny Chov.)
It names almost 55,000 who were sent to the camps, where more than 10,000 died.
The database lists almost ten thousand prisoners in the Vorkutlag branch of Ukhtpechlag, 1,013 of whom died there between 1935 and 1938. (In 1950 there were 63,000 prisoners in Vorkutlag, see The Gulag in Northwest Russia, 1931-1960.)
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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nk
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Exploratory excursions
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Pokayanie foundation
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nk
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Some burial mounds and subsidence; graveside crosses
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not established
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Communication from A.V. Kalmykov (Vorkuta 2010) – archive of RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
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“Near Vorkuta a memorial to Polish inmates of the Gulag has been destroyed”, Kholod, 1 October 2023 [retrieved 31 October 2023].
