In the 1940s prisoners from Nizhneamurlag [1939-1955] were buried in the cemetery at hospital No 2 of Construction Project No 500, an area presently occupied by the Amur Foundry & Machine Engineering Plant (Amurlitmash). Mortality was high, reaching 30-40 deaths a day in 1943. The numbers buried in the cemetery have not been established and their names remain unknown.
The location of the hospital and the cemetery were indicated by witnesses from among the staff at the plant. Currently, the area they occupied is given over to the orchards of Amurlitmash.
The Memorial online database (2021) lists 30,192 victims from the Khabarovsk Region Book of Remembrance.
8,298 were shot (7,305 during the Great Terror); almost 10,000 were sent to the camps.
State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
---|---|---|
have not survived
|
not defined
|
unmarked
|
[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
M.A. Kuzmina, The Traces of Trampled Graves, Memorial: Komsomolsk-on-Amur, 2007 (88 pp)