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.
The Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression in the Krasnodar Krai is made up of eight volumes (2005-2015).
Drawing on that and other sources, the Memorial online database (2025) includes 89,958 names of victims in the Krasnodar Region (BR 34,696).
11,802 were shot, most during the Great Terror (11,188): no executions in 1918 are listed. Cases against another 1,306 detainees, 221 of whom died in captivity, were closed. More than 15,000 were sent to the camps; 3,642 were deported.
Police records name a further 55,000 victims, who were either sent from the Region to special settlements in other parts of the USSR or were born in those remote locations (5,054). Almost 26,000 were “kulaks” – twenty thousand were convicted in 1930-3. In the 1940s more than 15,000 were deported because of their “nationality”: 1,712 of the 5,726 deported in 1941 were aged 1-10.
| 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
