Pinyug-Syktyvkar railway* Sevlag burial ground | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Pinyug-Syktyvkar railway* Sevlag burial ground

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№43-23

Date of burial
1929-1931
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Address
Kirov Region, Podosinovsky district, Pinyug (nearest settlement)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
12 kms from Pinyug rail station, beyond Kamenka river
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Excursions
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Схема местонахождения лагпункта. Составлена в 1990
Схема местонахождения лагпункта. Составлена в 1990
Background

In 1929-1931, camp outpost No 2 of the Pinyug division of the Northern Camp Directorate (USEVLON) was located near the Pinyug rail station. Its inmates were building the branch line between Pinyug and Ust-Sysolsk (today Syktyvkar). The camp burial ground was located in the woods. The exact number buried there is unknown.

In 1989-1990, the burial ground and the territory of the camp outpost was studied by expeditions from the Podosinovsky district museum.

(The key to the 1990 map shows, from top to bottom: [1] numbered camp outposts, 3-9; [2] burial grounds; [3] narrow-gauge railway; and [4] railway embankment with tunnels.)

Books of Remembrance

Information about the deaths of Gulag inmates, where it survives, can be found in Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database with its 3 million entries, or in the Open List database (“Victims of Political Repression in the USSR, 1917-1991”).

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Some grave mounds and subsidence; no grave-markers have survived
Not determined
Not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Podosinovsky district administration.
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

Reply from the Podosinovsky district administration (№207-02-18 of 22 May 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

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