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.
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 2025 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.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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18 headboards have survived
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not established
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not delineated
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Report on the 2005 expedition by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
