The Zimka outpost of Ustvymlag came into existence in the mid-1930s. From 1938 to 1943, it was subordinate to Ustvymlag outpost No 8; after 1945 disabled prisoners produced wooden and ceramic tableware there. Prisoners who died in Zimka were buried in a separate burial ground, in both individual and common graves. In 2009 an expedition from the Knyazhpogost youth club studied the burial ground.
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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Burial mounds, a few grave markers
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not determined
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not delineated
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N.A. Morozov, The Gulag in the Komi Region: 1929-1956, Syktyvkar, 1997
Lev Razgon, True Stories: Tales of a Survivor, London: Souvenir Press, 1999 (in English)
“A report on the findings of our Yemva-Vozhael expedition, August 2009”, Knyazhpogost department for schoolchildren’s extra-curricular activities, 2009
