A punitive outpost of Yagrinlag was located in the 1930s to 1950s at the mouth of the Solza river. Prisoners were deployed, excavating a sand quarry and building the railway line between Molotovsk (Severodvinsk) and Nenoksa. Local residents recall that prisoners who died were buried in the Solza village graveyard.
In summer 2009, the graveyard was investigated by local historian G.V. Shaverina, chairwoman of the Severodvinsk section of the Sovest (Conscience) society. No trace of the camp burials was found. In 2013, thanks to the efforts of the villagers, a cross was erected in memory of Yagrinlag prisoners.
The Memorial online database (2025) lists 72,325 victims in the Arkhangelsk Region (BR 15,944). See Severodvinsk.
From other sources the database lists 1,896 victims sent to the Arkhangelsk Region: some to the camps, most to its special settlements (1,301). 41 were Yaginlag prisoners, seven of whom are recorded as dying in the camp system.
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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 ]
“Yagrinlag in the lives of people and the city” website [retrieved, 28 May 2022]
N. Bredenkova, “A Yagrinlag inmate: the diary, criminal file and relatives recollections of Valish Habibullin”, Uroki istorii [Lessons of History] [retrieved, 28 May 2022]
“Yagrinlag, according to the monograph Severodvinsk, a city of ships by M.M. and A.M. Ostrochenko”, Severodvinska.net (Severodvinsk city website)
“Burial of prisoners from the Yagrinlag punitive outpost at the mouth of the Solza river”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022]
