Dudinka, fish factory (c) German graveyard

Card

№24-07

Date of burial

1940s-1950s

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Address

Krasnoyarsk Krai, Dudinka, Pshenichny Ruchei (uninhabited)

Access outside a populated area

Public transport

Private or specialised transport

Comments

On 3 & 4 April the town’s public transport system runs buses to the cemetery.

Visiting Hours or Restrictions

Unrestricted

Type of burial

Deportees’ graveyard

Current use

Ceremonial events

Presence of memorials, etc.

Protected status

Not protected

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Background

Around 1942, several kms from Dudinka port, a fish-processing factory was built with a special settlement nearby for Soviet Germans deported from the Volga. The forced settlers were put to work, catching and processing fish. The German graveyard at the Fish factory was several kms from the port, located on the summit of a hill. The numbers who died and were buried there have not been established. Later the free inhabitants of the settlement started living on the slopes of the hill. The settlement ceased to exist in the mid-1990s and the factory closed in 2004.

Books of Remembrance

The electronic Book of Remembrance of Soviet Germans (Gedenkbuch) 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.

Ceremonies

Date	Nature of ceremonies	Organiser or responsible person	Participants	Frequency
nk	Commemorative Services	nk	nk	From time to time

Nature of area requiring preservation

State of burials	Area	Boundaries
Some graves have survived; the name-plates on crosses are lost, for the most part	not established	not delineated

Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site

On land under the control of the Dudinka town administration.

Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

Archive of the Taimyr district local history museum (Dudinka)

RIC Memorial archive (St Petersburg)