In the 1930s and 1940s there was a camp outpost (today known as the Limestone Barrier park) 6 km from the Shirokaya Rechka settlement. The prisoners worked in the limestone quarry. Those who died were buried in the camp burial ground 400 metres from the camp. How many died and were buried there is unknown; the site was not further used after the camp outpost closed.
The burial ground has been studied by children from School No 25, under the guidance of T.E. Solomonova, head of the local museum, and biology teacher V.I. Suvorova. It has also been included in Ecological-Local History Tour No 1, devised by Ms Suvorova.
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”).
The Memorial online database (2021) lists 21,559 prisoners from the Sverdlovsk Region Book of Remembrance, half of whom were living in the region before their arrest.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Sunsidence where prisoners were buried
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Not established
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Unmarked
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Materials from the Museum of School No 25 (Yekaterinburg)
