Achair Nunnery** Burials of No 8 colony prisoners | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Achair Nunnery** Burials of No 8 colony prisoners

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№55-11

Date of burial
late 1930s-1953
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Address
Omsk Region, Omsk district, Rechnoi settlement (outskirts)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
By agreement only
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Reburial
Current use
Burial ground and/or commemorative site
Cultural and/or educational purposes
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2011 года. Источник: Архив НИЦ «Мемориал»
Фотография 2011 года. Источник: Архив НИЦ «Мемориал»
Background

From the mid-1930s up until 1953 corrective-labour colony No. 8 was based at the 47th kilometre of the Cherlaksky Road. One of the camp burial grounds was in the woods behind the Kolonsky Orchard, today part of the territory of the Achair Nunnery. After the colony was disbanded the burial ground was abandoned and its territory become part of the Rechnoi settlement [55-10]. For decades the local inhabitants came across human remains on their allotments.

Part of the remains were gathered and preserved in a symbolic common grave in the lower side-chapel of the church (dedicated to “Faith, Hope and Charity and their Mother Sophia”). The nunnery was restored in 1992 as a memorial to the victims of Stalinist repression. Its most important relic, the Siberian Golgotha, is dedicated to their memory.

Books of Remembrance

Since 2000, seventeen Books of Remembrance [55-02] have been published in the Omsk Region.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
camp burials have not survived; the reburial is in good condition
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Omsk City Administration. The Achair Nunnery comes under the Omsk and Tavrichesky Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

Materials of an expedition to the Omsk Region (2011) – RIC Memorial archive (St Petersburg)

N. Tyatyushkin, A Siberian Golgotha: The Achair Nunnery of the Cross, no date, Omsk (24 pp)

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“Achair Nunnery. Cemetery of No 8 labour colony prisoners”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022]

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