In June 1948, 1,500 deported Lithuanians were transported to the Irkutsk Region’s Bodaibinsky district, where they were allocated to various settlements. The number of Lithuanians in the Vasilevsky settlement has not been established. Those who died there were buried in a separate section of the settlement’s cemetery in accordance with Catholic rites and crosses and name plates were raised over their graves. The total number who died there is not known.
In 2007 the Vasilevsky graveyard was studied by Lithuanian researcher Gintautas Alekna. He carried out a photo survey, uncovered 43 burials with grave-markers, and drew up a plan of their layout.
Research on the Genocide of the Lithuanian People (Lietuvos gyventoju Genocidas; 3 vols. 1999-2009) contains about 130,000 biographical entries (in Lithuanian). Volume 3 covers the period from 1948 onwards and see Deportation of Lithuanians, 1941-1951 for the 28 other burial grounds and commemorative sites on the Map of Memory.
The 2021 Memorial database lists 25,729 victims in the Irkutsk Region. It includes 208 Lithuanians (most born in Lithuania) some shot during the Great Terror (30), the majority sent to the camps in the 1940s and 1950s.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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43 headboards have survived
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not determined
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not delineated
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Note on the 2007 expedition by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
