Special settlement No 3 (Ust-Vel) of the Noshul village council was set up in 1930 by dekulakized peasant families. By 1 January 1932 there were 767 people there and the adult males worked, for the most part, in the logging industry. Those who died were buried in individual graves in a graveyard 500 metres from the settlement in the surrounding pine forest. The numbers buried in the graveyard has not been established; according to former inhabitants about 400 men, women and children 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 236 individuals who from 1930 onwards were deported to Ust-Vel 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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burial mounds of about 50 graves; some headboards, 10 unnamed crosses and two headboards with names
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500 х 500 metres
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Aleftina A. Trofimova (born Malysheva) [Memoirs] in G.F. Dobronozhenko and L.S. Shabalova (compilers), Dekulakization and deportation of the peasantry in people’s social memory: Studies, memoirs and documents, Syktyvkar, 2005
Reply from the Priluzsky district administration (№ 01/13-3972 of 10 July 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
