The prison and detention centre (isolator) of Lokchimlag were located in the “commandant’s zone”. In 1938-1940, prisoners who died under interrogation were buried in a wooded are next to the commandant’s office. According to local residents, prisoners were executed in the camp prison. The numbers buried have not be established; name lists have not been found.
In 2001, a commemorative sign “To the prisoners of forest camps” was erected not far from the burials. In 2008 and 2009 the burial ground was studied by the Kortkeross Centre for Children’s Extracurricular Education. They found 64 areas of subsidence, indicating the presence of burials; no grave-markers had survived.
The Memorial online database (2025) lists 129,473 victims in the Komi Republic. (See Syktyvkar Kirul.)
Among them were over 60,000 deportees sent to the Republic: during collectivisation (19,934 in 1929-35), a massive influx in 1940 from occupied Polish territory (19,365) and more in the 1940s and 1950s (5,769). The database names almost 55,000 sent to the camps, where over 10,000 died: half were convicted in 1936-1940, including 7,977 who subsequently died in the camps. Drawing on the Komi Book of Remembrance and other sources, the database lists 26 Lokchimlag inmates, one of whom was again imprisoned in 1937 and nine others who died in the camps between 1940 and 1943.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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Soil subsidence indicates presence of 64 graves
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4,200 sq m
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Materials of the local history expedition of Kortkeross Centre for Children’s Extracurricular Education (2008, 2009) – Archive of RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
“Cemetery of the Lokchimlag commandant’s zone in Adzherom”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 26 May 2022; no longer accessible, August 2025]
