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.
The Memorial online database (2025) includes 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.
Тhe database lists 19,343 individuals who were held in Ukhtpechlag, of whom 6,185 died in captivity (predominantly those transferred from other camps and prisons). Тhat list includes 10,094 sent to the camp system’s Vorkutlag branch where 1,146 of them died. (And see The Gulag in Northwest Russia, 1931-1960.)
The database includes four victims who were sent to Kedrovy Shor in 1930.
| 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; no longer accessible]
