Special settlement No 4 (also known as Sorel and Nolevoi) of the Noshul village council was set up in 1930 by dekulakized peasant families, deported from central Russia and the German Volga republic. On 1 January 1932 the population was 469, and the adult males worked, for the most part, in the logging industry and at the Mutnitsky flax-processing factory. Those who died were buried in individual graves in a graveyard created 200 metres from the settlement in the surrounding pine forest. The numbers of men, women and children who died and were buried there has not been established.
In the late 1940s the settlement was closed, and no more burials were made 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 Memorial online database (2025) lists 129,473 victims in the Komi Republic. (See Nizhny Chov.)
Among them were over 64,000 deportees sent to or born in the Republic. During collectivisation (1929-35) they numbered 20,366, a quarter of whom were aged 1-10. In 1940 there was a massive influx from occupied Polish territory (19,367). More, mainly Germans (5,970) were sent there in the 1940s and 1950s (6,699).
The database names 145 individuals who were deported to Sorel with their families from 1930 (131) onwards or who were born there (34).
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Civil rites and Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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burial mounds have survived, but no headboards
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200 х 200 metres
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Yelisaveta I. Abelyasheva (born Kindsvater) [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)
