In 2007 Father Andrei (Gusev), incumbent of the village church, found a burial of clergy who were executed in the 1920s near Volchanka. In five common graves lay the remains of 18 bodies bearing the signs of violent death. They were reburied on 16 September that year in the village Park of Victory and an Orthodox cross was placed on the new common grave.
In 2012 the foundation stone of the future Church of St Sergei Radonezh was consecrated nearby.
The Memorial online database (2021) includes 21,735 victims in the Novosibirsk Region: 5,000 of whom were sent to the camps, 7,496 were shot (6,853 during the Great Terror), and 6,000 deported, with their families.
It lists 44 who were shot in the early 1920s, none of them priests; 60 priests are listed as shot, most (48) during the Great Terror, the rest during the early 1930s.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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Reburial in good condition
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not determined
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Reburial site surrounded by railings
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
V. Melnikov, “A deadly firing range”, Vecherny Novosibirsk, 25 October 2007 [retrieved, 28 May 2022]
G. Pyrkh, “The radiance of sacrificial love”, Novosibirsky eparkhialny vestnik, 2007, October, Nos 11-12 (72-73) [retrieved, 28 May 2022]
A. Gusev, “Repressive measures in Dovolnoe, 1919-1932”, Conference on Russia’s new 20th-century Martyrs and Confessors, Iskitim, 2011 [retrieved, 28 May 2022]
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“Dovolnoe village. A mass grave of the executed“, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022; no longer accessible, August 2025]
