Sevpechlag punitive outpost burials** | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Sevpechlag punitive outpost burials**

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№11-186

Date of burial
1941-1944
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Address
Komi Republic, Inta urban district, Kozhym-Rudnik (abandoned)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
25 kms south of Kozhim-Rudnik, along the Kozhim high road
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Burial ground and/or commemorative site
Cultural and/or educational purposes
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2012 года. Предоставлена Интинским краеведческим музеем
Фотография 2012 года. Предоставлена Интинским краеведческим музеем
Background

Near the town of Malinovaya between 1941 and 1944 a punitive outpost of Sevpechlag operated during the summer months. Prisoners extracted and processed quarzitic sandstone. Blocks from these boulders were used to surface the railroad bridge across the Kozhym river. Prisoners who died there were buried, it was presumed, next to the industrial area of the camp.

In 2010, an expedition of children from Special School No 6 in Inta, together with the “Dvenadtsat” hiking club found the site of the camp industrial area with the remains of buildings and equipment. They erected a wooden cross on the slope above Malinovaya. In 2012, a group of Inta schoolchildren led by their teacher N.A. Kiseloyva found traces of burials near the industrial section: eight sunken graves in a fir grove.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Subsidence over graves, a total of eight pits
not established
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Inta City Administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

“Secrets of the abandoned mines”, Raduga, 24 June 2013 [retrieved on 26 May 2022]

Reply from the Inta urban district administration (№ 09/8359 of 25 June 2014) to an enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

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