The camp outpost near Yus-Nyra was organised in 1943 to provide food and building materials to the Abez camp. Five hundred prisoners were held there. In 1953 (other reports say 1955) the prisoners were transferred to Minlag camp outpost No. 1. The camp burial ground was on raised ground in a fir forest 150 metres from the Lemba river. Burials were made in common graves.
In 2009 the cemetery was investigated by an exploratory expedition made up of pupils and teachers from Secondary School No 6 in Inta. They were shown its location by local inhabitant I. Somesov. Sixteen graves were indicated by subsidence of a quadrilateral form. The expedition members raised a wooden commemorative cross on the site.
Information about some deceased Gulag inmates can be found in Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database with its 3 million entries, or in the Open List database (“Victims of Political Repression in the USSR, 1917-1991”).
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016), includes biographical entries on 52,785 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.
| 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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“Yus-Nyra: … findings of an exploratory expedition to discover mass burials … in the Inta district”, compiled by V.D. Kornilov and O.A. Vavilova, Inta, 2009
