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.
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]