The burial ground of prisoners from the Intalag infirmary (1944-1948) subsequently became camp outpost No. 5 of Minlag. After Minlag closed in 1957 the burial ground was very infrequently used for civilian burials. The numbers buried there is unknown, lists of names are not available, but a few of the graves have been identified from the surviving grave-markers.
Today the burial ground is within Inta town limits and forms part of the Southern sub-district; a section of the territory is used for garden allotments. In the 1970s some of the grave markers were destroyed (the crosses were thrown in the river) as dachas were built there. In 1988 the burial ground was visited by a youth expedition from Lithuania who raised the crosses and placed them in the surviving section of the burial ground. In 1990 a Ukrainian delegation erected a wooden cross with the inscription, “May the victims of the Communist terror, fighters for a free Ukraine, never be forgotten”.
In 2000 local historian N.A. Baranov raised two Komi-Izhma wooden crosses to mark the entrance to the burial ground. Exploratory work was carried out in 2004 by a group of Inta historians and schoolchildren.
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016) is one of the few Books of Remembrance to include the many involuntary residents of the area and has biographical entries on 65,000 individuals, from dekulakized peasant families and former Polish citizens to Soviet German forced labourers.
Information about some deceased Gulag inmates can be found in Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database with its 3 million entries, or in the Open List database (“Victims of Political Repression in the USSR, 1917-1991”).
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Subsidence over the burials. Wooden and metal crosses have survived, and two named memorials
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1.6 hectares
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
N.A. Morozov, The Gulag in the Komi region, 1929-1956, Syktyvkar, 1997
N.A. Morozov, Special camps of the USSR MVD in the Komi region, 1948-1954, Syktyvkar, 1998 (156 pp)
L.N. Malofeyevskaya, The town on the Bolshaya Inta river, Syktyvkar, 2004
L.N. Malofeyevskaya, They called us enemies …, Syktyvkar, 2008
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Reply from the Inta urban district administration № 09/8359, 25 June 2014, to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
