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Djyntui rail station ss. Pechorlag burials

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№11-86

Date of burial
1940s-1950s
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Address
Komi Republic, Pechora municipal district, Djyntui station on the Northern railroad (outskirts)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
On left bank of Izyayu river, 70-100 metres from rim of quarry and located alongside it
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Unused
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Фотофиксация 2010. Источник: Архив Печорского историко-краеведческого музея
Фотофиксация 2010. Источник: Архив Печорского историко-краеведческого музея
Background

In the 1940s and 1950s a lime production works was in operation next to the Djyntui station (Northern Railroad). The lime was quarried nearby. The work was performed by prisoners from a punitive outpost of Pechorlag. Those who died were buried on the left bank of the Izyayu river next to the quarry. The total numbers buried there are unknown.

The location of this mass burial was discovered in 2008 by an exploratory expedition of pupils from Pechora’s industrial-economic technical college. In 2009-2010 the borders of the area of burial were clarified, the territory was studied and a plan of the area was drawn up.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
About 70 grave trenches, subsidence over separate graves
about 0.5 hectares
partially delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Pechora municipal district
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

“Materials of exploratory expeditions between 2005 and 2010”, Archive of the Pechora regional history Museum

“Djyntui rail station. Burials of Pechorlag prisoners”, The Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 26 May 2022]

Reply from Pechora urban district administration (No 01-14-6229 of 7 July 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

Reply from Pechora urban district administration

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