The Sevvostlag camp outpost at Butugychag existed from the late 1930s until 1955 enriching and extracting gold and, later, mining uranium. It had several sections and no less than five cemeteries, the largest of which was next to the Central camp settlement. Prisoners were buried in mass graves and individually. The numbers buried there have not been established.
Since the early 1990s the site has been investigated by geophysicist I.V. Gribanov. The results of his studies are preserved in the museum of the Ust-Omchug settlement, Tenkinsky district.
In the early 2000s, many stakes denoting burial places and grave numbers still survived; in 2003 an Orthodox cross was erected and consecrated at the cemetery (see photos).
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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Subsidence indicates location of burials and trenches; stakes show location of graves
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About 3,500 sq m
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Materials of the 2011 Kolyma expedition – archive of the Memorial Research & Information Centre (St Petersburg)
I.V. Gribanov, Tenka. Another turn of the spiral: A historical study, Magadan, 2013
“Butugychag outpost prisoners burial ground”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022]
Reply by the Tenkinsky district administration of the Magadan Region (№ 870 of 20 March 2014) to an enquiry from RIC Memorial (Saint Petersburg)
