In the early 1940s Kargovino was one of the areas of special settlement to which Poles were deported. The Poles who died there were buried in the village graveyard. [Those deported on 9-10 February 1940 were the first to arrive here, Dembowska, 2011.]
In 1996 a metal commemorative cross was erected in the graveyard. The attached board bears the inscription: “600 deported Poles lived and worked in Kargovino between 1940 and 1944. Many of them died and were buried here; may they rest in peace. Сześć ich pamięci /we honour their memory. This cross was placed here by Boleslaw and Wanda Danko, 1996”.
There are reports that there was a Polish graveyard in Kargovino, but it has not survived.
The database “Polish forced settlers in the Arkhangelsk Region” lists 547 individuals, almost all of whom arrived in Kargovino in March 1940. It lists 36 who died there. 431 were of Polish nationality (200 men, 231 women); 116 were of Belorussian nationality.
The Memorial online database (2025) includes the names of 56,173 Polish citizens deported to the Arkhangelsk Region and records that 3,872 died there. (The source is the 1997 database mentioned above.) 36,454 of the deportees were men and women of Polish nationality, 11,883 were Jewish., 4,904 Belorussians and 1,894 Ukrainians.
The database records the names of 547 Polish citizens deported to Kargovino (431 men and women of Polish nationality and 116 Belorussians) and lists 36 who died there.
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
“Tracing Polish graveyards”, Dvinovazhe: the history and culture of the Vinogradovsky district, 31 May 2015
[A. Dembowska, “Polish special settlers in the Arkhangelsk Region”, Old Arkhangelsk, 1/2, 2011 [retrieved 12 November 2023].
