At the end of 1946 a special settlement was organised at the Severouralsk bauxite mines. The following year it became known as Cheryomukhovo. More than 200 families of deported Lithuanians were settled here to work in the mines. The special settlers who died were buried in a section set aside for them at the Mostovaya village graveyard three kms away. According to oral testimony, they were buried during the winter of 1946-1947 in communal pits: later symbolic graves were created on the site. Subsequently, the dead were buried in individual graves, with their own grave-markers, and services were conducted.
In 1990 an expedition of Sajudis (the Lithuanian Popular Front) visited Mostovaya. A religious service was held at the cemetery and relatives exhumed those buried there to be reinterred in Lithuania. After exhumation all the grave-markers were restored.
In 2006 the cemetery was studied by an expedition from the city of Severouralsk of the children’s ecological movement Greenwatch.
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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About 30 headboards have survived; the names are difficult to read
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Not defined
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Unmarked
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
N.M. Paegle, Behind the barbed wire of the Urals. In memory of the victims of political repression, 1930s-1940s, Volume 2, Krasnoturinsk, 2006
Materials of the 2006 Greenwatch expedition - Greenwatch archive (Severouralsk)
Report by the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Resistance of Lithuania on the 2004 expedition
