In June 1948, 2,128 people, including deported Lithuanians, were transported to the Irkutsk Region’s Ziminsky district, where they were allocated to various settlements. The number of Lithuanians in Zulumai village has not been established. Those who died there were buried in a separate section of the village graveyard in accordance with Catholic rites. The total number buried there is not known. Due to an epidemic of typhoid in winter 1948-1949 there was a high death rate in the village.
In 2005 the graveyard was studied by Lithuanian researcher Gintautas Alekna. A photo survey was carried out, 52 graves with markers were uncovered, and a plan of the layout of the burials was made. The following year the “Destination, Siberia” commemorative expedition from Lithuania visited the graveyard. Its members cleared the Lithuanian graves and re-attached their markers.
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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52 headboards have been presrved
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not established
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not defined
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Report on the 2005 expedition by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
Petras Musteikis: «Palaikė lietuvių vienybė», Gintarine Svajone website, 1 August 2011 (in Lithuanian)
