In June 1948, 2,128 people, including deported Lithuanians, were transported to the Irkutsk Region’s Zima district, where they were allocated to various settlements. The number of Lithuanians in the town of Zima has not been established. Those who died there were buried in the town cemetery and in the graveyard of the nearby Ukhtuy village [No. 38-32] in accordance with Catholic rites. The total number buried in the Zima cemetery is not known.
In 2005 the town graveyard was studied by Lithuanian researcher Gintautas Alekna. A photo survey was carried out, 39 graves with markers were uncovered, and a plan of the layout of the burials was made. The following year the “Destination, Siberia” expedition from Lithuania worked in the graveyard, clearing the Lithuanian graves and re-attached crosses and name plates. The graveyard of the nearby village of Ukhtuy is now //within the town boundary.
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.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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39 headboards have survived
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not established
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not delineated
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Note on the 2005 expedition by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
