In 1918-1938 those shot or who died in the city’s prisons were buried in common graves at the Bugrovskoe cemetery. Their number has not been established. The plots where the victims were interred were subsequently used again as a burial area and it is now impossible to distinguish the original graves.
In 1994 at the suggestion of the ‘Nizhny Novgorod Society of the Victims of Political Repression’ the Nizhny Novgorod Administration placed a memorial on the fringes of the cemetery, with the inscription: “May the victims of the totalitarian regime never be forgotten”. In 2005 a brick Wall of Remembrance was built nearby for the display of individual commemorative plaques.
The Memorial database (2021) lists 39,730 victims in the Nizhny-Novgorod Region.
5,414 were shot (4,636 during the Great Terror), over 15,000 sent to the camps and 2,725 deported from the Region with their families. Police records add several thousand more deportees (3,828 local “kulaks”). (1,999 cases were closed without charge after months in custody, during which 72 died.)
Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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30 October
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Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression
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Regional commission for Restoration of the Rights of Rehabilitated Victims of Political Repression
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Relatives of the victims, City officials, religious and other unofficial organisations
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Annual event
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State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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have not survived
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not determined
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not delineated
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Places in the Nizhny Novgorod Region where the Victims of Political Repression are commemorated, Nizhny Novgorod, 2009
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Reply by the Nizhny Novgorod Region FSB (№ 10/4280 of 22 June 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
Reply by the Nizhny Novgorod City department for culture (№ 18-495/14-ns of 08 May 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)