In the 1930s one place where the executed inhabitants of Achinsk and nearby districts of the Krasnoyarsk Krai were buried was the waste ground next to the town cemetery. The numbers buried there are not known. Researchers estimate that no less than 1,700 were shot in Achinsk during the Great Terror (1937-1938).
In 1967 a local branch of the Siberian Toy factory (Krasnoyarsk) was built over the burial site. During construction human remains were found in abundance. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the Memorial society gathered testimony from the town’s inhabitants about places where the victims of political repression were buried [24-15] in Achinsk; these included the area of the toy factory. In July 1990 the commission for socialist legality of the city deputies recognised these facts to be established beyond doubt.
A Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression in the Krasnoyarsk Krai (13 vols. 2004-2014) includes biographical entries for 45,400 who were shot or sent to the camps. The Memorial online database lists the names of 15,032 shot in the Krasnoyarsk Krai during the Great Terror, a further 8,363 were listed as sent to the camps in 1937-1938. The Open List database names 843 who were shot in Achinsk during the Terror.
| 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 & hyperlinks ]
P. Lopatin, “The fate of the country in the life of one family”, Krasnoyarsky rabochy, 30 October 2009
Reply by the Achinsk City administration (27 June 2014) to a formal enquiry from RIC Memorial; Appendix: witness depositions (RIC Memorial archive, St Petersburg)
