During the Second World War deported Lithuanians were buried in the Machishchenskoe graveyard in Biisk. In 1945-1947, Japanese POWs were buried there. The graveyard was closed to further interments in 1962. In the early 1970s, the Japanese burials were partially destroyed during building work.
In 1990, a Lithuanian delegation of former deportees erected a Lithuanian commemorative cross in the graveyard and in 1998 they added a monument. The inscription in Russian and Lithuanian reads: “To the citizens of Lithuania who perished in exile in the Altai, 1941-1945”.
Research on the Genocide of the Lithuanian People (Lietuvos gyventoju Genocidas; 3 vols. 1999-2009) contains about 130,000 biographical entries (in Lithuanian).
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have not survived
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not established
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not delineated
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[ original texts and hyperlinks ]
Materials of an expedition to the Altai Krai (2011) – archive of RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
V. Popov, “A small island of the mournful archipelago”, Nash Biisk: gorodskaya obshchestvenno-politicheskaya gazeta, 30 August 2013
“Machishchenskoe graveyard in Biisk”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 27 May 2022]
