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Krasny Yag (c)* Minlag children’s burial ground

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№11-98

Date of burial
1943-1953
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Address
Komi Republic, Pechora municipal district, Krasny Yag settlement
Access in a populated area
On foot
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Cultural and/or educational purposes
Ceremonial events
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2005 года. Архив НИЦ «Мемориал»
Фотография 2005 года. Архив НИЦ «Мемориал»
Background

The children’s home at the agricultural division of Intalag (Minlag) in the Krasny Yag settlement existed from 1943 to 1953. In 1946 and 1947 children were brought here from other children’s home in the camps, from the Kanin and Adak settlements. In 1948-1953 the children’s home in Krasny Yag had up to 200 children under the age of 3. Its burial ground was in a pine grove in the centre of the settlement. The total number who died has not been established and lists have not been found. All that is known are the names of five children. The individual burials were mainly those of children who died in 1946-1954.

Some of the graves were in destroyed in the 1960s-1980s during roadworks. In 2005 the burial ground was studied by a youth group from Pechora Memorial. They took measurements, counted the surviving graves and drew up a plan of the burials. On 12 June 2014 an Orthodox cross was erected and consecrated there.

(Plan of Krasny Yag camp shows: [1] 1940s camp burial ground; [2] remains of children’s home and other buildings; [3] former camp administrative building; and [4] children’s burial ground of 1940s-1950s, next to the road and the Pechora river. Drawn by B.B. Ivanov in 2005.)

Ceremonies
DateNature of ceremoniesOrganiser or responsible personParticipantsFrequency
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Mounds and subsidence. About 80 graves have survived
About 1,900 sq m
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Pechora municipal district
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

A beautiful forest, my Krasny Yag: A chronicle of the settlement in photos, documents and recollections, the Pechora inter-district library, Pechora, 2011, 64 pp

“The children’s cemetery at the Krasny Yag agricultural division of Intalag (Minlag)”, 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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