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.
Information about some deceased Gulag inmates can be found in Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database with its 3 million entries, or in the Open List database (“Victims of Political Repression in the USSR, 1917-1991”). The Memorial online database lists 18,424 who were sent to the camps of the Krasnoyarsk Region but does not specify where in that vast region.
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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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)
