Malaya Lata came into existence in the early 1930s as a special settlement for dekulakized peasant families from Ukraine. In 1946 deported Lithuanians were sent here. Those who died were buried in a cemetery 600 metres southeast of the village. The numbers of men, women and children who died and were buried there has not been established. In the mid-1970s Malaya Lata ceased to exist and was excluded from official surveys as a population centre.
In 2004, the cemetery was studied by Lithuanian researcher G. Alekna: photos were taken and a plan of the layout of Lithuanian burials was made. In 2010, the “Siberian mission” youth expedition from Lithuania cleared and tidied the section of the cemetery containing Lithuanian burials and re-attached grave markers.
Research on the Genocide of the Lithuanian People (Lietuvos gyventoju Genocidas; 3 vols. 1999-2009) contains about 130,000 biographical entries that include those deported in the 1940s-1950s (in Lithuanian).
| 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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Some headboards have survived; the inscriptions on them are lost
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not established
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
V.N. Zemskov, “Kulak deportation during and on the eve of the Great Patriotic War”, Sociological Studies, No 2, 1996
Report of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania on the 2004 expedition
