From its establishment in 1938, one division of the Krasnoyarsk corrective-labour camp complex (Kraslag) was located in Kansk. The prisoners worked in the logging industry and built the Kansk hydroelectric factory. Those who died were buried in the camp burial ground, not far from the aerodrome. Executions of prisoners, sentenced to death, also took place there; those shot were buried in mass graves. The exact number of those buried there is unknown. Today the burial ground is covered by new buildings.
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 Krai.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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have not survived
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Letter from G.P. Kapustinsky to the Memorial Society in Krasnoyarsk, 23 December 1993 – archive of the Krasnoyarsk Memorial Society
Reply by the Kansk City Administration (No 1335 of 19 June 2014) to a formal enquiry from RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
