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Kozhym-Rudnik (c)* Sevpechlag & deportees graves

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№11-33

Date of burial
1940s-1950s
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Address
Komi Republic, Inta, Kozhym
Access outside a populated area
On foot
Comments
On left bank of River Sedyol beyond railroad embankment; about 1.5 kms from Kozhym
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Deportees’ graveyard
Current use
Excursions
Ceremonial events
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
Схема размещения лагерных объектов в окрестностях поселка Кожим. Составлена Н.А.Барановым в 2009
Схема размещения лагерных объектов в окрестностях поселка Кожим. Составлена Н.А.Барановым в 2009
Background

The Sevpechlag camp cemetery of the Kozhym mine (transferred in 1944 to Intastroi and in 1946 to the Intaugol combine) was created in the early 1940s. After 1956 local inhabitants, particularly former prisoners and deportees, were buried there. Since 1960 it has become the local graveyard. The numbers of prisoners buried there have not been established; name lists are not available.

The graves and grave-markers of former prisoners and deportees (1956-1960) are well preserved. In 2004 the graveyard by investigated by a joint Lithuanian-Inta Memorial group. Two years later members of the Lithuanian Council of Youth Organisations (“Exploration of places of exile and death”) attached a metal plaque to a birch tree bearing the text (in Russian and Lithuanian) “Here lie deported Lithuanians / A†A Čia ilsisi lietuviai tremtiniai, Lietuvos jaunimo organizacijų taryba “Ekspedicijos i, trėmimo ir žūties vietas” (2006).

On 27 June 2008, thanks to the efforts of the Inta museum of history and local studies and the Memorial Society a wooden commemorative cross bearing the plaque “To the victims of the Gulag” was erected here.

(The map of the area shows the location of: [1] the bridge construction brigade, 1940-1944; [2] the burial ground of the imprisoned bridge builders; [3] the rail station; [4] the civilian graveyard, 1960s to 2000; [5] the civilian graveyard, 1956-1960; [6] prisoners burial ground, 1942-1956; and [7] the 2008 commemorative cross; in relation to the railroad and the Sedyol and Kozhim rivers. Drawn by N.A. Baranov in 2008.)

Ceremonies
DateNature of ceremoniesOrganiser or responsible personParticipantsFrequency
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
no surviving grave posts on camp burials; many areas of subsidence over the burials. Graves and grave-markers have in part survived among the deportees
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Inta town district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

Archive of the Inta local history museum

Reply from the Komi Republic Ministry of Culture (No 06-17-1230 of 30 April 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

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