Near Durnitsyno village on Barochka Island (liable to flooding) on the Vychegda River the Solvychegda Cheka and Kotlas revolutionary tribunal carried out executions in 1918.
Name lists are known for two sentences. On 24 September 1918 eight public and political figures from Ust-Sysolsk (present-day Syktyvkar), were transported from Kotlas and shot there: A.V. Velling, V.N. Gorodetsky, S.N. Klochkov, L.A. Lenin, N.I. Mityushev, I.P. Petrokansky, V.I. Sidorov and A.T. Kharyuzov. On 30 September 1918 five clergy from the Nikolo-Koryazhemsky and Solvychegda Vvedensky Monasteries were shot there: Archimandrite Pavel (I.Ya. Moiseyev), Archimandrite Feodosy (F.D. Sobolev), hiero-monk Seraphim (N.Ya. Kulakov) and the pilgrim P.Ya. Ganichev.
The place where their bodies were buried has not been discovered. In 2005 a wooden cross was erected on the banks of the Vychegda River opposite Barochka Island in memory of the executed clergy.
The Coast-Dwellers Memorial: A Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression (3 vols. 1999-2001) includes biographical entries of 16,000 who were imprisoned or shot. The Memorial online database (2021) lists 2,313 who were shot in the Arkhangelsk Region – 1,502 during the Great Terror – and names 11 shot in 1918, but none of those listed here.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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30 September
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Anniversary of the executions of the clergy
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Church of Longin of Koryazhma, Koryazhma
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clergy and parishioners
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Annual event
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| 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 and hyperlinks ]
I.L. Zherebstov, “With the wedge of Marxist-Leninist analysis: repression against the Komi intelligentsia”, Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression, Vol 4, Syktyvkar, 2001, pp. 423-464.
V. Kevishas, “People die, settlements vanish from the face of the earth, but the memory must remain”, Trudovaya Koryazhma, 6 October 2011
V. Nogovitsyn, “Yesterday a cross was erected where Koryazhma’s monks were executed”, Trudovaya Koryazhma, 27 September 2005
