In 1920 participants in a Peasant Uprising were shot near the village of Sorochi log. They had risen in protest against the introduction of forcible grain requisition by the Soviet regime. Sources say that between five and 20 were executed, including a priest. Their bodies were thrown into a ravine.
Subsequently a spring arose not far from the site of execution and it became a place of pilgrimage for Christian believers. In the 1990s a chapel dedicated to John the Baptist was built next to the spring and in 1995 the John the Baptist hermitage was founded there.
An Orthodox cross within the symbolic grave of the executed participants of the uprising carries a plaque bearing the words, “Grant Thy peace, O Lord, to those murdered here for the faith”.
Victims of Political Repression in the Altai Krai (7 vols. 1998-2005) includes biographical entries on 46,200 individuals who were shot or sent to the camps between 1919 and 1965.
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[ original texts and hyperlinks ]
Ye.A. Kozik, “the Russian Orthodox Church and the State during the establishment of the Soviet regime in Altai (1917-1927)”, Makaryev Readings, 2007, Issue 6
Materials of the RIC Memorial expedition (2011) – archive of the Memorial Research & Information Centre (St Petersburg)
“Sorochi Log village. Peasant uprising, execution and burial site”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 27 May 2022]
