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Kedrovy Shor ss* Prisoners burials

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№11-91

Date of burial
1930s-1950s
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Address
Komi Republic, Pechora municipal district, Kedrovy Shor settlement
Access in a populated area
On foot
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Burial ground and/or commemorative site
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Background

The Kedrovy Shor agricultural camp [see 11-92] existed from 1932 until the mid-1950s. The children of the women prisoners at work there were kept in a children’s home. Those who died were buried in the forest. Today a part of the camp burials has been taken over by the settlement graveyard and the graves of prisoners are overlaid with later burials. In the free area traces of the camp burials can be seen and, in particular, the many children’s graves. In the early 2000s some crosses survived.

In 2000 the burial ground was studied by T.G. Afanasyeva of the Pechora museum of history and local studies; she also questioned old inhabitants. The total number of burials has not been established; a few names are known. The grave of the priest-monk Dimitry is in the cemetery: before his arrest and exile to Pechora in the 1930s he was Bishop of Tyumen.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
grave mounds and subsidence, several grave-markers have survived
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Kedrovy Shor rural settlement administration, Pechora municipal district
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

“Materials of exploratory expeditions in 2000 and 2004”, Archive of the Pechora museum of history and local studies

“Cemetery of Kedrovy Shor agricultural camp 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)

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