Forced settlers of all categories were sent to Kadzherom from the 1930s to 1950s. Prisoners from Sevzheldorlag, building the Northern Railroad, and POWs were also buried there. The burials of prisoners and forced settlers from the 1940s have not survived.
In 2007, next to Kadzherom’s old cemetery where forced settlers were also buried in the 1950s, a memorial was erected, “In memory of those who perished during the years of mass political repression”.
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 listed as dying in Komi (but cf. Tomsk Region police figures).
Drawing on various sources the Memorial database lists 1,221 individuals who were held in Sevzheldorlag (848 sentenced in 1940): 983 were Belorussians and Poles. It names 94 who died in captivity but does not specify where they died or were buried. (And see The Gulag in Northwest Russia, 1931-1960.)
It also names many families, often headed by women (total 495) who were sent to Kadzherom from the Voronezh, Kursk and Vologda Regions, and from Ukraine, many in the early 1930s; 73 of them were later born there.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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nk
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Commemorative Services
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nk
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nk
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Burial mounds, subsidence indicating burial location, a few headboards
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not established
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not delineated
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T.G. Afanasyeva, “Materials for a guide to the Pechora district of the Komi republic” (manuscript), Pechora, 2013
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“Kadzherom settlement. Graves of deportees”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved on 26 May 2022; no longer accessible]
Reply from the Komi Republic Ministry of Culture, No. 06-17-1230 of 30 April 2014, to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
