Gorky mine burial ground | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Gorky mine burial ground

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№49-18

Date of burial
1940s-1950s
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Address
Magadan Region, Yagodinsky district, Gorky settlement (non-existent)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Unused
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2011 года. Источник: Архив НИЦ «Мемориал»
Фотография 2011 года. Источник: Архив НИЦ «Мемориал»
Background

A camp outpost of Dalstroi’s Northern mining department existed at the goldmine from 1941 to 1954. The Sevvostlag prisoners burial ground was 2 kms from the camp. The total number buried there is not known. Inhabitants of the Gorky settlement were subsequently buried in the same area.

The mine closed in the late 1990s and the settlement ceased to exist some years later. The graveyard has been abandoned.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
have not survived
not established
partially delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Yagodinsky district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

Materials of the Kolyma expedition (2011) – archive of the Memorial Research & Information Centre (St Petersburg)

“Gorky mine prisoners’ cemetery”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022]

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