In 1938 Susuman became the centre of Dalstroi’s western mining department; in 1949-1956 the headquarters of Sevvostlag’s western department were located here. The hospital cemetery is within the city limits, next to houses (now uninhabited) on Transportnaya Street. Often number plates have partially survived on the stakes marking the burials and certain of the interments can be determined by the burial mounds. The total number buried here has not been established.
Information about some deceased Gulag inmates 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”).
Memorial’s database (2021) names 11,427 victims in the Magadan Region.
7,456 were shot there, 6,607 of them during the Great Terror. 2,807, according to police records, were sent to special settlement in the Region from all over the USSR. Drawing on other sources the database names 1,833 who served time in Sevvostlag (349 of whom died there).
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Burial mounds, stakes with number boards
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
N.V. Litvinova, “Many years have passed since then …” Gornyak Severa, 24 October 2013
“Prisoners’ cemetery at central camp hospital (West Dalstroi) in Susuman”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022; no longer accessible, August 2025]
