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.
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, 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.)
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
|
About 70 grave trenches, subsidence over separate graves
|
about 0.5 hectares
|
partially delineated
|
[ 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; 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)
