In 1942 Brigade No. 1 of Ivdellag was set up in the Polunochnoe settlement. Soviet Germans from Ukraine and the Volga republic were sent to work as forced labourers, processing the manganese deposit nearby. The camp prisoners were building the narrow-gauge railway from Ivdel to Polunochnoe and extracting and loading the manganese ore.
In 1942-1943 the forced labourers who died were buried in common graves in a special section bordering the southern part of the settlement graveyard. Later when they were transferred to a forced settler regime they were buried in the graveyard in individual graves. The exact number of forced labourers who died and were buried at Polunochnoe is not known. At present the common graves dating from 1942-1943 are covered by a rubbish dump.
The electronic Book of Remembrance of Russian Germans (Gedenkbuch) 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.
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Common graves from 1942-1943 have not survived
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
L. Vsevolozhskaya, “The manganese deposits in the Vsevolozhsky district”, Uralskaya starina almanac, Issue 5, Yekaterinburg, 2003
F. Solomonovich, “Ivdellag”, Uralsky sledopyt, 2009, No.3
V.M. Kirillov, G.Ya. Malamud, “The German population of the Urals and labour mobilisation”, Rusdeutsch [retrieved, 29 May 2022]
