Prisoners who died in Infirmary No. 1 of Pechzheldorlag in 1940-1957 were buried in the cemetery next to the railyards in Pechora. Those who died in the infirmaries of the Central Dispersal Outpost and the wood-processing plant were also buried there. To begin with the dead were buried in common graves. The numbers buried here have not been established.
In the late 1950s the cemetery acquired civilian status and in the 1960s-1980s a further layer of individual burials of the inhabitants of Pechora was added to those of the prisoners. The cemetery was closed in the mid-1990s. In 1992 a monument “To the victims of Pechorlag, 1940-1957” was placed next to the entrance into the cemetery, thanks to a proposal by the Pechora Memorial Society.
The Memorial online database (2025) lists 129,473 victims in the Komi Republic. (See Nizhny Chov.)
It names almost 55,000 sent to the camps in Komi, where over 10,000 died: most were convicted in 1936-1940, including 7,977 who subsequently died in captivity.
Drawing on the Komi Book of Remembrance and other sources the Memorial online database (2025) names 105 prisoners held in Pechorlag in the 1930s and 1940s, where 24 are recorded as dying. (And see The Gulag in Northwest Russia, 1931-1960.)
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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30 October
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Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression
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Pechora town administration
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Public, schoolchildren, town officials
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Annual event
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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Grave mounds, subsidence; grave markers have survived in places
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over 3,000 sq m. Parts of it survive
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partially delineated
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[ original texts and hyperlinks ]
“Pechora. Cemetery of Pechzheldorlag infirmary No 1”, The Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 26 May 2022; no longer accessible, August 2025]
Reply from Pechora urban district administration (No 01-14-6229 of 7 July 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
