Special settlement No 8 (German settlement, renamed Matyash in the late 1930s) was set up in 1930 by dekulakized peasant families, deported from central Russia and the German Volga republic. By 1 January 1932 it had 625 inhabitants. The adult males worked in the logging industry, engaged in agriculture, and reared livestock. Those men, women and children who died there were buried in individual graves in a graveyard on the bank of the Luza river, one kilometre from the settlement. After it was closed as a special settlement in 1950, inhabitants of Veldorya were buried there.
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016), includes entries on 65,000 individuals, from dekulakized peasant families and former Polish citizens to Soviet German forced labourers, who were deported to the area.
The Komi Book of Remembrance lists 123 individuals who from 1930 onwards were deported to Matyash with their families or were subsequently born there (see Memorial online database).
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Civil rites and Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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90 graves have survived; 52 of them are nameless
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300 х 400 metres
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
“The lives of Germans in the Sysolsky district [A report by N.L. Sokol (born Dergacheva)]”, Russian Germans in the Komi republic: A People’s Book of Remembrance
Reply from the Priluzsky district administration (№ 01/13-3972 of 10 July 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
