In September 1943, when construction of the Opok hydroelectric scheme on the Sukhona river resumed, camp outpost No 2 of Opoklag was organised on the outskirts of Porog village. In 1943-1947 deceased prisoners were interred in the camp burial ground, a kilometre from the village, in individual and common graves. In 2004, local businessman V.M. Lendyaev paid for a memorial to be erected in the burial ground. It is cared for by schoolchildren from Poldarsa settlement.
A database including biographical entries on 26,866 individuals who were shot or sent to the camps was posted on the regional administration website and then taken down. Likewise, a list of 11,399 dekulakized or deported individuals was also posted and subsequently removed. No Book of Remembrance has been published for the Vologda Region.
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Characteristic subsidence
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
A.P. Dunayeva, M.B. Zhelezova, “Opokstroi”, Veliki Ustyug: a local history almanac, Issue 1, Vologda, 1995.
O.V. Bychikhina, E.A. Nekipelova, Historical memory as a moral and spiritual problem of our time: A small island of the Gulag in the Opok district, St Petersburg, 2011
