After 1932 a special settlement for dekulakized peasant families was set up near the rail station. In 1937 camp outpost No. 17 of Taishetlag (later a camp outpost of Bamlag and Ozerlag) began its existence nearby. From 1937 onwards prisoners were buried in the cemetery there, in individual and common graves.
In the late 1990s the cemetery was studied by members of the Biryusa club for young school-age historians, led by Ye.S. Seleznyov.
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 sent to the Region, 2,788 in 1930-1 alone. Over 3,000 were deported to special settlements, and 1,609 “dekulakised”. It also lists 387 sent to Taishetlag. 226 of them were arrested in 1937-8 and 21 are recorded as dying there (almost all in 1938) by the Karelian Commemorative Lists. (See Petrozavodsk.)
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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A few burial mounds and subsidence; grave markers of forced settlers have not survived
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Ye.S. Seleznyov, “Ascending the Golden Hill”, Biryusina dolina website
