The Adzvavom outpost of the Ukhtpechlag camp system came into existence in the early 1930s as a transit point for prisoners being escorted on foot or by water to Vorkuta. Many died on the way and were buried in common graves in a special plot next to the Pravy stream. No signs were added to indicated who lay there. From the mid-1930s inhabitants of Adzvavom village were also buried in the same location. Subsequently the camp authorities began to bury prisoners on the other side of the camp (see No 11-27) and the graveyard beside the Pravy stream became exclusively civilian. Meanwhile, the camp burials were partially displaced by burials of Adzvavom villagers.
Today traces of the camp burials are to be found among the graves of local inhabitants in various parts of the cemetery. In 2000, the area of the camp outpost and the cemetery were studied by an expedition from Inta and elderly villagers were interviewed. An Orthodox cross has been erected and consecrated at the location of the graveyard. A notice attached to the cross reads: “To those who did not return.”
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016), includes biographical entries on more than 50,000 who were sent to the camps in Komi, of whom 10,364 died there. As the Memorial online database (2021) shows, the region’s Book of Remembrance does not specify where they died and were buried.
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Characteristic subsidence among civilian graves where prisoners were buried beforer
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graveyard is 6,000 sq m
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unmarked
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Report of 2000 expedition by Inta museum to uncover mass burials of camp outposts along the Usa river – Pokayanie Fund archive (Syktyvkar)
Reply from the Inta urban district administration (№ 09/8359 of 25 June 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
