In the 1930s and 1940s there was a brickworks at the Adak camp outpost (part of Ukhtpechlag and later camps). Prisoners who worked there were housed in barracks nearby. Those who died were buried in a separate location, half a kilometre from the village. Members of the camp administration and, in the 1950s, Adak villagers were also buried there. The graves of the prisoners and free workers were close together. The burial ground was used until the late 1950s. Today it is abandoned.
The number of prisoners buried there is unknown and lists of names are not available. In June 2000 an expedition from the Inta district museum of history and local studies, led by V.A. Aduyeva and N.A. Baranov, erected a commemorative cross on the site. It bears the inscription, “To those who did not return”.
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”).
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 10,364 are listed as having died there. As the Memorial online database (2021) shows, the region’s Book of Remembrance does not specify where they died or were buried.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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Civil rites and Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Subsidence over burials; several grave-markers have survived
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400 sq m
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
P. Kotov, “Facing Adak”, Iskra (Inta), 3 August 1991, No 18 (23)
Report on the 2001 expedition by the Inta local history museum to uncover mass burials of the camp outposts along the Usa river – Pokayanie Fund archive (Syktyvkar)
V.Ya. Rubanovich, Address – Adak camp outpost, Moscow: Vozvrashchenie, 2011 (312 pp)
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Reply from the Inta urban district administration, № 09/8359 of 25 June 2014, to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
