Omchik outpost burial ground | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Omchik outpost burial ground

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№49-22

Date of burial
1930s-1950s
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Address
Magadan Region, Tenkinsky district
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
Comments
335 kms from Magadan along the Tenkinsky Highway (post 313). 1 km from the road.
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Unused
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
Background

The Omchik outpost of roadbuilders existed from the 1930s to the 1950s and was part of the Tenkinsky complex within Sevvostlag. Its burial ground lay above the Nemchan stream.

Today a small part of the burial area and several wooden coffin lids have been preserved; most of the burials have disappeared under the road embankment. The burials were discovered in 2003 by the Debin businessman V.A. Naiman and that year he erected a commemorative Orthodox cross ten metres from the road.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
A few headboards have survived
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Tenkinsky district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

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

“Burial ground of the Omchik outpost prisoners”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022]

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