Galka UI ss* Deportees | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Galka UI ss* Deportees

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№66-13

Date of burial
1930s-1950s
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Address
Sverdlovsk Region, Karpinsk, Galka clearing (uninhabited)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
20 kms from Karpinsk, accessible by motor vehicle and on foot (or by water) along the Kakva river
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Deportees’ graveyard
Current use
Excursions
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2013 года. Источник: http://wikimapia.org/27254842/ru/Урочище-Галка
Фотография 2013 года. Источник: http://wikimapia.org/27254842/ru/Урочище-Галка
Background

The Galka special settlement was created in 1930 as an outpost of the Bogoslovsk forestry concern by dekulakized peasant families from Ukraine and Kuban. Those who died were buried in mass and individual graves in a cemetery at the mouth of the Galka river. The settlement ceased to exist in the mid-1960s, and the cemetery has been abandoned since then.

Books of Remembrance

The online Memorial database (2025) lists 13,162 deported to the Sverdlovsk Region from all over the USSR.

6,276 were “dekulakised” or born in special settlements; 589 were later deported by reason of their “nationality”.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Have not survived
not established
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Karpinsk urban district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

N. Paegle, Behind the barbed wire in the Urals, Krasnoturinsk, 2004

“Weekend expedition of class 11B, 28 November 2013”, website of school No 5, Karpinsk

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