In 1942-1944 prisoners of Sevpechlag construction brigade No. 2 were buried on the bank of the Kozhim river not far from the railway bridge. The burial ground is today overgrown with mixed woodland and grave markers have not survived. The numbers who were buried has not been established. The camp burials have been partially covered by the more recent burials of local residents.
The cemetery was discovered and studied in 2000 by an exploratory expedition from the Inta district museum led by V.A. Aduyeva. In 2008 staff of the Inta museum, members of the Memorial Society and pupils from Inta’s School No. 2 raised a wooden cross there with the inscription “To the victims of the Gulag”.
(In 2000 Aduyeva drew up a plan of Kozhym Rudnik rail station at the 1952 km from Moscow and the surrounding camp installations: [1] the mine and nearby camp, [2] a second camp across the Kozhim River, and [3 & 4] the burial grounds. The railroad running to Moscow and to Inta is shown at the base of the plan.)
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016), includes biographical entries on over 50,000 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.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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subsidence over the burials
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
“Report on the work of an exploratory expedition from the Inta district museum to uncover mass burials of the victims of political repression at the Kozhim camp outpost, 2000”, Archive of the Pokayanie (Repentance) foundation, Syktyvkar
Reply No. 09/8359 of 25 June 2014 from the Inta urban district administration to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
