When the Kashtak-1 residential district was being built in 1995 remains of those executed were found [70-02]. The bones cast aside by the builders were gathered by the Memorial Society action group, led by V.G. Fast, and passed to the prosecutor’s office for investigation. Forensic examination confirmed that they dated back to the second half of the 1930s.
On the mayor’s instructions the remains were reburied on 20 December 2002 in the Baktinsky cemetery. A wooden cross was erected over the common grave with a metal plaque that read: “Here lie the remains of the dead, discovered by excavation in the Kasktak residential district in 1995. On 24 September 2008 thanks to the efforts of the Tomsk Memorial society, with the support of the Regional and City Dumas, a memorial (designer V. Miller) was erected. Paid for by the city administration. It bears an inscription, “Your names are unknown, but your memory lives on. Here lie the remains of those found in Kashtak in 1995, a place of mass execution in the 1920s-1940s”.
Human Suffering: A Book in Remembrance of those from the Tomsk Region who were Repressed in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s (5 vols. 1991-1999) contains 20,800 biographical entries on those who were shot or sent to the Gulag. The Memorial database lists almost 10,000 who were shot in the Tomsk Region during the Great Terror.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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nk
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Civil rites and Commemorative Services
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Tomsk Memorial Society
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nk
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several times a year
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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reburial is in good condition
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30 sq m
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Defined by a fence
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Nineteen Thirty-Seven …: A collection of documents and materials, B.P. Trenin (ed), Tomsk: Tomsk University and Memorial society, 1998 (372 pp)
The NKVD interrogation centre, archive of Tomsk Memorial museum of the history of political repression
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Reply from Tomsk Region department for information & public relations (№ 17-293 of 13 May 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
