A camp outpost in Rikasikha village, subordinate to Yagrinlag’s 2nd division, existed from 1938-1942. The prisoners were building the Molotovsk-Rikasikha motorway. When war began in 1941 the roadbuilders were moved to a different section and a Yagrinlag infirmary was located there.
The burial site was discovered in the late 1980s by the “Repression” exploratory group (director, A.I. Klimov) and the Memorial Society. As of 2013, nothing remained of the camp burial.
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.
| 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 ]
T. Melnik, “The Yagrin corrective-labour camp in Molotovsk”, Hard Labour and Exile in the Russian North: a collection of articles, Arkhangelsk, 2006
“Yagrinlag in the lives of people and the city” website [retrieved, 19 January 2025]
