Taishet graveyard* Bamlag prisoners & forced settlers | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Taishet graveyard* Bamlag prisoners & forced settlers

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№38-61

Date of burial
1930s-1940s
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Address
Irkutsk Region, Taishet, Pushkin Street, Central Park of Culture and Recreation
Access in a populated area
Public transport
On foot
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Deportees’ graveyard
Current use
Cultural and/or educational purposes
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография из статьи Краевского П. Тайшетские заключенные гулага
Фотография из статьи Краевского П. Тайшетские заключенные гулага
Background

This was Taishet’s first cemetery. In the 1930s and 1940s Bamlag / Ozerlag prisoners and forced settlers were buried here. In the early 1950s the area was turned into the present Park of Culture and Recreation.

Books of Remembrance

The 2025 Memorial database lists 25,729 victims in the Irkutsk Region. See Pivovarikha (which does not include ‘outsiders’ sent to the Region’s special settlements or camps).

From other sources the database names 4,420 deported to the Region, 2,788 in 1930-1 alone. It also lists 646 Bamlag prisoners and some from Ozerlag.

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

[ links and original texts ]

Marina Vyun (school No. 85, Taishet) “The legend of the plaster boy”, Stengazeta, a weekly publication about culture, 26 November 2007

P. Kraevsky, “The Taishet prisoners of the Gulag”, Proza.ru

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