The central infirmary of camp outpost No 1 in Abez on the east bank of the Usa River began to operate in 1940. Part of Sevpechlag until 1949, it then was transferred to Minlag, serving both prisoners and free workers. After Minlag itself was disbanded in 1957 the territory of camp outpost No 1 and the infirmary was ploughed up and used as farmland. The numbers buried there has not been established.
As of 2005 the free workers’ section of the graveyard survived, in part, and traces of the camp structures. Local historian V.V. Lozhkin studied the area of the former camp, as did exploratory expeditions from Vorkuta in 2004 (Raduga brigade) and from Inta in 2005 (staff of the Inta museum of history and local studies together with pupils from Secondary School No 6).
(The 2005 plan shows: [1] burials of prisoners from camp outpost No 5, ОЛП 5; [2] civilian graveyard next to camp outpost No. 1, ОЛП 1; [3] memorial graveyard, 1949-1959; [4] the old civilian graveyard, 1945-1960; and [5] the new civilian graveyard, 1960s onwards.).
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 over 10,000 died there.
Drawing on that and other sources the Memorial online database (2025) names 225 prisoners who were held in Sevpechlag and eight who died in captivity, one in the Abez settlement in February 1942. (And see The Gulag in Northwest Russia, 1931-1960.)
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have not survived
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
A report on the Inta district museum’s exploratory expedition to uncover mass burials of the victims of political repression (Abez 2005) – Archive of the Pokayanie Foundation (Syktyvkar)
I. Shcherbakova (compiler), “’We paid with our lives’, The cemeteries of the Abez camp prisoners”, Stengazeta, 16 November 2006 [retrieved, 26 May 2022]
N.A. Baranov, “Abez as part of the Gulag”, Iskra, tvoya gorodskaya gazeta, 16 April 2012
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Reply from the Inta urban district administration (№ 09/8359 of 25 June 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
