The Zaozerny camp outpost formed part of the Kedrovy Shor farm in Ukhtpechlag (subsequently Vorkutlag and Intalag). It was 3 kms northwest of Kedrovy Shor settlement. The burial ground is located in the forest half a kilometre from the surviving foundations of the camp buildings.
One grave in the burial ground has survived: it was cared for by a former prisoner who until the 1970s would each year make the journey back there. In 2000 the burial ground was studied by T.G. Afanasyeva of the Pechora museum of history and local studies.
Information about some deceased Gulag inmates can be found in Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database with its 3 million entries, or in the Open List database (“Victims of Political Repression in the USSR, 1917-1991”).
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016), includes biographical entries on 52,785 who were sent to the camps in Komi, of whom 10,364 died there. As the Memorial online database (2021) shows, the region’s Book of Remembrance does not specify where they died and were buried.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Burial mounds, subsidence
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
N.A. Morozov, The Gulag in the Komi Region, 1929-1956, Syktyvkar, 1997
T.G. Afanasyeva, “Materials for a guide to the Pechora district” (manuscript), Pechora, 2013
“Kedrovy shor settlement. Zaozerny camp prisoners burial ground”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved on 26 May 2022]
