Alexandrovskoe village. Prison burial ground | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Alexandrovskoe village. Prison burial ground

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№38-94

Date of burial
1930s-1956
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Address
Irkutsk Region, Ust-Ordynskoe Buryat AR, Bokhansky district, Alexandrovskoe village
Access outside a populated area
On foot
Comments
In wooded land, 1.5 kms from the village
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Unused
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Background

The Alexandrovsk Central Hard-Labour Prison was established in 1873. During the Soviet period it was first a labour colony for juvenile offenders and then, from the late 1930s to 1956, it served as a prison for those sentenced to terms of imprisonment and a centre for isolation and interrogation.

The prisoners burial ground was located in woods near the Alexandrovskoe village. Burials were made in individual and common graves. Subsequently, the graves were partially destroyed during the building of a road. Part of the burial mounds have survived.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
A few burial mounds
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Bokhansky district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

“The Alexandrovsk Central Prison has left behind a burial ground”, NewsBabr.com website, 19 May 2002

O. Nekhayev, “Far away in the Irkutsk Region a bulldozer destroys memory”, Sibirika portal

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