The Kochmes farm was set up in 1935-1936 as a branch of Ukhtpechlag. Thereafter it was constantly transferred from one camp system to another. In 1940, for instance, it was the main supplier of vegetables to Vorkutlag. A considerable number of the prisoners were women sentenced for “political crimes” (Article 58). From the late 1930s until the end of the 1940s there was a children’s home at the outpost with places for 150. After 1948 the farm belonged to Minlag; it was disbanded in 1952.
The prisoners burial ground was located in the forest. It is no longer possible to establish it boundaries; no grave markers have survived. In August 2000 a group of local historians and schoolchildren from Inta put up a wooden golubets-cross on the area between the burial ground and the Kochmes settlement. The inscription 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 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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not preserved
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
A.L. Voitolovskaya, “Transit wards”, Tracing the fate of my generation, Syktyvkar, 1991
N.A. Glazov, “Memoirs”, Archive of the Inta museum of history and local studies, KP 1568/7
M. Krochik, “By right of correspondence”, Geolog Severa, 29 October 1999 (No. 20)
L.N. Malofeyevskaya, The town on the Bolshaya Inta river, Syktyvkar, 2004
A.N. Kaneva, “Ukhtpechlag, pages from history”, in Vol 8, part 1 of the Pokayanie [Repentance] Martyrology, compiled by E.A. Zelenskaya and M.B. Rogachov (The Komi Book of Remembrance), Syktyvkar, 2005
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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)
