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.
The Memorial online database (2025) lists 129,473 victims in the Komi Republic. (See Nizhny Chov.)
It names almost 55,000 sent to the camps in Komi, where over 10,000 died: half were convicted in 1936-1940, including 7,977 who subsequently died in the camps. (And see The Gulag in Northwest Russia, 1931-1960.)
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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
