The Oshpyor camp outpost was part of the north division of Sevpechlag. In the early 1940s male prisoners who were building the railroad bridge across the Kochmes river were held here. From the mid-1940s there was also a contingent of female prisoners who loaded and unloaded wagons and also cleared clinkers from the Oshpyor rail station. It is not known when the camp outpost closed.
The cemetery is half a kilometre from the railway. It was studied in 1993 by an expedition from the Inta district museum. About one hundred individual and common graves, indicated by subsidence, were found. In 2009 there was a joint expedition by the Inta museum and Inta Memorial Society together with pupils from Secondary School No. 2 and Lyceum No. 13 in Inta. The expedition was led by N.A. Baranov and I.V. Pomerantsev. During their visit the expedition members erected a wooden commemorative cross at the site.
The 2009 map shows: [1] subsidence over mass graves; [2] commemorative cross; [3] civilian graveyard; and [4] TV retransmission tower.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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Characteristic subsidence; about 100 individual and common graves
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30 х 70 metres
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
“Report on the exploratory work to discover mass burials of the victims of political repression near the Turun and Oshpyor stations of the Northern Railroad, 2009”, Archive of the Inta district museum
Reply from the Inta urban district administration (№ 09/8359 of 25 June 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
