The cemetery of the camp outpost for the disabled was organised in the 1930s as part of Ukhtpechlag (the Adak clinic outpost). It was on raised ground a few dozen metres from the camp, hence the word “mount” in the expression “taken to the mount” found in memoirs. The numbers buried there have not been established and lists of names are not available. After the camp closed the cemetery was not used and became overgrown with bushes and trees.
In 1989 a group from Vorkuta Memorial society, headed by T. Bakuleva, studied the site. In 1996 a Ukrainian delegation led by I.V. Fedushak visited the cemetery. That year crosses were erected in memory of Ukrainian historian V.D. Yurkevich (1898-1939) and Leningrad historian Professor A.M. Pokrovsky (1899-1944) who both died in Adak. In 2000 an expedition from the Inta regional history museum, led by V.A. Aduyeva and N.A. Baranov, studied the medical outpost, made a photo survey of the area and established a memorial “To those who did not return” on the mount.
In the early 1990s P. Kotov, a former inmate of the Adak camp outpost, drew a diagram of its internal layout (barracks, office, kitchen, punishment block) within the barbed wire and the barracks for the camp guards.
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Civil rites and Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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subsidence over burial pits; some posts bearing numbers
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estimated 300 × 500 metres
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
P. Kotov, “Facing Adak”, Iskra (Inta), 3 August 1991, № 18 (23)
V.A. Aduyeva (compiler), “Report on an expedition to uncover sites of mass burial of camp outposts along the Usa River”, Archive of the Inta district museum
V. Rubanovich, Address, Adak camp outpost, Vozvrashchenie: Moscow, 2011
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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)
