The burial ground in Volchansk arose in the early 1940s for the Bogoslovlag prisoners and German forced labourers working in the local coal mine. It was destroyed in the early 1960s and is today a wasteland on which a few old graves have survived.
It is impossible to determine the boundaries of the camp burials; the total numbers of prisoners and forced labourers buried here is unknown – name lists are unavailable. In 2000, thanks to the efforts of the Bogoslovsky Urals local history foundation, a four-metre commemorative metal cross was erected on the site of the former burial ground.
The electronic Book of Remembrance (Gedenkbuch) of Russian Germans contains biographical entries on more than 100,000 Soviet Germans variously sentenced under Article 58, deported as forced settlers, or mobilised in camps of forced labourers.
Information about some deceased Gulag inmates can be found in Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database with its 3 million entries, or in the Open List database (“Victims of Political Repression in the USSR, 1917-1991”).
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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have not survived
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0.1 hectares
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Archive of the Volchansk local history museum
Materials of an expedition to the Sverdlovsk Region (2008) – Memorial RIC Archive (St Petersburg)
