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Rasyu UI ss. Forced settlers

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№11-78

Date of burial
1930s-1950s
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Address
Komi republic, Kortkerossky district, Rasyu village (uninhabited)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
Poorly accessible, 24 kms from Madja village
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Deportees’ graveyard
Current use
Unused
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
План места захоронения спецпоселка Расъю. Составлен в 2002. Из материалов поисково-краеведческих экспедиций Коткеросского центра дополнительного образования
План места захоронения спецпоселка Расъю. Составлен в 2002. Из материалов поисково-краеведческих экспедиций Коткеросского центра дополнительного образования
Background

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.

Books of Remembrance

The Memorial online database (2025) lists 129,473 victims in the Komi Republic. (See Nizhny Chov.)

They include many families and individuals deported to the Republic: 20,366 during collectivisation (1929-35), a massive influx from occupied Polish territory (19,367 in 1940) and more in the 1940s and 1950s (6,699). 597 are named as dying in Komi (but cf. Tomsk Region police figures).

The database lists families and individuals (total 901) who from 1930-1 (401) onwards were deported to Rasyu; and 88 who were born there. The total includes 393 deported in 1940, mostly from former Polish territory.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Subsidence over burials
not established
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Madja rural settlement administration
Sources and bibliography

[ 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; no longer accessible]

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