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.
The online Memorial database (2025) names 24,320 victims in the Vologda Region (BR 2,820). See Chashnikovo.
1,841 were sent to the camps; 158 individuals were deported from the Region. Police records add many more local families and individuals (total 7,028) who were sent to special settlements elsewhere.
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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
