The Rasyu special settlement was established in the early 1930s for dekulakized peasant families. By the end of that decade there were about 900 forced settlers there. There is information that the settlement had two cemeteries. The numbers of men, women and children buried there are unknown.
In 1956, Rasyu was closed and the cemeteries were abandoned. One was investigated in summer 2002 by the Kortkeross Centre for Children’s Extracurricular Education. A plan of the burial site was drawn up and a commemorative cross was erected there.
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016), includes entries on 65,000 individuals, from dekulakized peasant families and former citizens of Poland to Soviet German forced labourers, who were deported to the area.
The Komi Book of Remembrance lists 989 individuals who from 1930 onwards were either deported to Rasyu with their families or who were born there (see Memorial online database).
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Subsidence over burials
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not established
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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 (2002) – Pokayanie Foundation (Syktyvkar)
“Rasyu special settlement graveyard”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 26 May 2022]
