Special settlement No 4 (Soz) was built 28 kms from the mouth of the river Soz by forced settlers from Udmurtia in spring 1930. Dekulakized peasant families from the Volga region were sent there during the 1930s and then deported Estonians. After 1942 the majority of forced settlers moved out of Soz to other population centres in the district. In 1944, exiled inhabitants of the Volyn Region in West Ukraine took over the empty houses.
The settlement ceased to exist in 1990. The graveyard is located in the woods 400 metres from the former settlement. The number of forced settlers buried here has not been established, lists of names are not available.
In addition to entries on 17,000 who were shot or sent to the Gulag, A Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression (6 vols. 2000-2004) includes biographical entries on 8,800 who were dekulakized in the early 1930s or deported later.
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Crosses and fences around some of the graves have survived in one part of the graveyard. Relatives living in nearby villages take care of some of the surviving graves.
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
A.V. Zelentsova, “A trip to the Nagorsky district, Kirov Region, to investigate the subject of forced settlers” (1991), K. Gerd Museum of the Udmurtian Republic (Izhevsk)
