Vesyoly ss* Lithuanian graveyard | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Vesyoly ss* Lithuanian graveyard

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№38-51

Date of burial
1948-1956
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Address
Irkutsk Region, Nizhneudinsky district, Vesyoly (non-existent)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
16 kms from Alzamai settlement; accessible by motor vehicle and then on foot
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Deportees’ graveyard
Current use
Excursions
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2005 года
Фотография 2005 года
Background

In summer 1948, deported Lithuanians were transported to the Irkutsk Region’s Nizhneudinsky district, where they were allocated to various settlements. The number of Lithuanians in Vesyoly settlement has not been established. Those who died there were buried in a separate section of the village graveyard. In accordance with Catholic rites a marker and name plates were added to each grave. The total number buried there is not known.

In 2006, the cemetery was studied by Lithuanian researcher Gintautas Alekna. A photo survey was carried out, 18 graves with markers were uncovered, and a plan of the layout of the burials was made.

Books of Remembrance

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.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
18 headboards have survived
not established
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Nizhneudinsky district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

Report on the 2005 expedition by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania

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