In the 1940s and 1950s, forced settlers were buried in the Mayak (Lighthouse) cemetery, Finns deported from the Leningrad Region and Soviet Germans from the Volga. In 1964, during the construction of school No 6 on the site of one of Norillag’s cemeteries (today 6 Ludmila Alexeyeva Street), the remains of buried prisoners were discovered. They were reburied without identification tags in a common grave at the German cemetery. Its location has been lost.
In the 1990s, two crosses were erected in the cemetery in memory of the Finnish and German forced settlers. The German cross was put there on 28 August 1991 and bears the words, “Forever remembered”. The Finnish cross was added in 1995.
See in Their Names Restored collection at the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg): 1. The online List of shot and imprisoned Finns; 2. The electronic Book of Remembrance of Russian Germans (Gedenkbuch). The latter contains biographical entries on more than 100,000 Soviet Germans variously sentenced under Article 58, deported as forced settlers, or mobilised in camps of forced labourers.
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29 October
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Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression
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The Defence of the Victims of Political Repression association
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The Defence of the Victims of Political Repression association, volunteers of the district department for youth, sport and family policy, the Taimyr youth centre, relatives of the victims
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Annual event
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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The forced settlers graves have survived in part
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ original texts and hyperlinks ]
Archive of the Taimyr district local history museum (Dudinka)
RIC Memorial archive (St Petersburg)
“In Taimyr they have honoured the memory of victims of political repression”, Krasnoyarsky rabochy, 22 October 2013
