On 5 June 1918, after units of the Red Army had suppressed the Troitskoe uprising in the Chamlykskaya cantonment, Cossacks who had taken part in the rebellion and their families were summarily cut to pieces with sables: researchers offer various estimates, including executed children, ranging from 147 to 940 victims. Those who died were buried in a common grave near the village graveyard.
In 1996 a wooden memorial cross was placed over the burial site. In June 2009, it was replaced by a metal cross ten metres high.
See the Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression in the Krasnodar Krai (8 volumes, 2005-2015).
The Memorial online database (2025) includes 90,069 names of victims (BR 34,696) in the Krasnodar Region: few are listed as resident in the Region (34,371).
11,802 were shot, most during the Great Terror (11,188) – no executions in 1918 are listed. Over 16,000 were sent to the camps; charges were dropped against 1,306 detainees (18 of whom died in captivity); and 3,642 were deported. Police records name a further 55,000 who were sent from the Region to special settlements in other parts of the USSR (5,054 were born there): almost 26,000 were “kulaks” and later over 17,000 were deported because of their “nationality”.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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June
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Chamlyk commemorative events
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nk
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Annual event
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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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 ]
A. Broslavskaya, “The Troitskoe uprising”, Kazachi vzglyad, 2006, No 4 (100), April
A. Andreyeva, “A memorial cross in the name of peace”, Kubanskie Novosti, 10 June 2009
A.K. Baskhanov, M.K. Baskhanov and I.D. Yegorov, Historical studies of Labinskaya village and the Labinskoe department of the Kuban Region, Nicosia, 1996
