In the 1930s, the transit camp for Ukhtpechlag (1932-1938) and then Sevzheldorlag (1938-1940) was based in the Old (Staraya) Abez village on the west bank of the Usa River. In 1940 the Sevpechlag farm was organized here, passing in the late 1940s under the control of Minlag (1949-1955). Deceased prisoners from all camp divisions were buried in the same place.
Today the burial ground no longer exists: the fields of the farm have taken its place. In 1989, Abez historian V.V. Lozhkin studied the area of the former camp burial ground.
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) lists 1,221 individuals who were held in Sevzheldorlag (848 sentenced in 1940) and names 94 who died in captivity but does not specify where they died or were buried and it names 225 prisoners who were held in Sevpechlag.
(And see The Gulag in Northwest Russia, 1931-1960.)
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Have not survived
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not established
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
N.A. Baranov, “Abez as part of the Gulag”, Iskra, tvoya gorodskaya gazeta, 16 April 2012
“Staraya Abez transit camp: the prisoners burial ground”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 26 May 2022; not accessible]
