Nidz settlement [C] Disabled prisoners graves | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Nidz settlement [C] Disabled prisoners graves

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№11-71

Date of burial
1930s-1950s
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Address
Komi Republic, Kortkeross disrict, Nidz settlement (non-existent)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
5 kms from Ust-Lekchim along road to Martety: 500 m southwest by unused quarry
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Deportees’ graveyard
Reburial
Current use
Ceremonial events
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
План места захоронения заключенных лагпункта «Нидзь Вычегодская». Составители: В. Елфимов, А. Смилингис, Л. Королева. 2006. Из материалов Фонда «Покаяние»
План места захоронения заключенных лагпункта «Нидзь Вычегодская». Составители: В. Елфимов, А. Смилингис, Л. Королева. 2006. Из материалов Фонда «Покаяние»
Background

From 1939, the camp outpost for disabled prisoners from Lokchimlag (subsequently Ustvymlag) was located in the Nidz camp settlement. After 1956 forced settlers were accommodated in the home for the disabled. The cemetery was in the pine forest and was abandoned after Nidz closed as a special settlement. In the 1970s and 1980s a sand quarry developed on the site of the cemetery and two thirds of the burials were destroyed.

Inhabitants of the surrounding villages gathered the remains of those buried as they came to the surface and on three occasions (1997, 2001, 2006) they reburied them in common graves on the edge of the former quarry. In 2006 a metal cross was erected with a board on which the following words were written: “Burials of the Ust-Lokchim camp. Nidz-Vychegodskaya. 1938-1959”.

Ceremonies
DateNature of ceremoniesOrganiser or responsible personParticipantsFrequency
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solemn ceremonies
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members of the public, local inhabitants
Annual event
Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
camp burials have not survived; reburials are intact
not determined
partially delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Kortkeros district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ original texts and hyperlinks ]

Materials of the local history expedition of Kortkeross Centre for Children’s Extracurricular Education (2001, 2006) – Archive of the Pokayanie Foundation (Syktyvkar)

“Nidz camp settlement for disabled, prisoners’ cemetery”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 26 May 2022]

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