The camp outpost at the rail crossing loop of Beregovoi (58 km on the Chum-Labytnangi railroad) operated here from 1948, it is thought, when it was decided to build a brickworks at this location. The prisoners who built the works came from Obsklag & Construction Site No 501. Those who died were buried near the camp.
In July 2010 an expedition of “Gorizont”, the Yamalo-Nenets regional youth history hiking group, led by A.N. Safonov, discovered the burials of prisoners. They covered an area of 600 x 350 metres and included up to 1,500 bodies.
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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nk
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Exploratory excursions
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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
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
A.N. Safonov, “The nature of research into the commemoration of inmates of Stalinist camps and the builders of the Chum-Salekhard-Igarka railroad, who were interred in the Obsklag burial grounds, 1946-1953”, Official website of the Gorizont youth group, 2010
Reply No. 06-17-1230 of 30 April 2014 from the Komi Republic Ministry of Culture to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
