252 prisoners of Zhelezlag and Polyansk corrective-labour camp, who built Krasnoyarsk-26 (today Zheleznogorsk, a city of over 84,000 inhabitants) were buried in the camp burial ground near checkpoint No 7. Thanks to staff from the town museum, local historian S.P. Kuchin and Father Anatoly (Kizyun) a commemorative wooden cross was erected in the camp cemetery on 26 April 1992, with a board bearing the words: “This cross was placed here in memory of the city’s first builders”.
The map by S.P. Kuchin shows Dodonovo at the confluence of the Yenisei and Kantat Rivers, not far from Krasnoyarsk-26 (today Zheleznogorsk); the Polyansky corrective-labour camp is to the south. Seven locations where prisoners were buried are indicated by a cross, followed by the numbers interred.
The Memorial online database (2025) includes 55,742 victims in the Krasnoyarsk Krai (Region). See Yeniseisk.
30,000 were sent to camps or special settlements elsewhere. Drawing on other sources, however, the database lists more than 12,000 sent to the the Krasnoyarsk Region, some to its camps (1,017), most to its special settlements (11,000).
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Some headboards have survived, the inscriptions on two are still legible
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
S.P. Kuchin, The Polyansky CLC: A documentary-historical account of the Polyansky corrective-labour camp, Zheleznogorsk, 1999.
G.M. Protskaya, “The History of the Cathedral”, website of the Archangel Michael Cathedral (Zheleznogorsk)
