The North and South Korgova special settlements were in existence in 1940 and 1941. Four kms apart, they were known as special settlement No. 83. Polish citizens deported in 1940 from territory occupied by the USSR were transferred here. On 1 January 1941, there were 494 forced settlers. Those who died in the two settlements were buried in a shared graveyard. The numbers buried there are unknown; the Verkhnetoemsky district registry office has compiled a list of 40 names.
In August 2010 the cemetery was investigated by a joint Russo-Polish youth expedition. Traces of twenty burials were discovered: the graves were marked by stones rather than crosses. On one of the burial mounds members of the expedition erected a commemorative cross. Soil was taken from the cemetery to add to a symbolic common grave for the Polish deportees in the Verkhnetoemsky district of the Arkhangelsk Region.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Subsidence above the burials
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about 2000 sq m
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Not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Polish deportees in the Arkhangelsk Region: A database compiled by the Information Centre of the regional Internal Affairs department (REC Memorial, Moscow, 1997)
Yevgeny Shirokolobov, “Tracing the Poles …”, Lessons of History [Uroki istorii] website, 5 December 2011 [retrieved, 28 May 2022]
A. Dembovska, The Poles in the Russian North: An album of Polish sites of remembrance, St Petersburg, 2011
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“Cemetery of former North and South Korgova special settlements”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022; no longer accessible]
Reply from the Verkhnetoemsky urban district administration (03 April 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
