The Prikulsky outpost of Tomasinlag came into existence in 1937. In 1940 it came under the control of two other camp systems. The prisoners were buried in a cemetery near the Itatka rail station that was next to the village cemetery. Several thousand prisoners from the Prikulsky and Taiginsky outposts for the disabled were buried here in large pits in the 1930s-1940s, according to researchers. In the late 1940s and early 1950s forced settlers were also buried there. Lists of the buried prisoners and settlers are lacking; individual names are known. The cemetery was abandoned in the early 1950s.
In 2006 an expedition from the Komi Republic studied the cemetery, searching for the grave of the Komi poet and dramatist Victor Savin (1888-1943) who died at the Prikulsky outpost. That year a symbolic grave was organised in his memory: a nameboard was fixed to a tree, a cross and wooden palings marked the location. The next year, to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the poet’s birth a pillar of red granite (designer V. Kleiman) from the Usinsky district of the Komi Republic was placed next to the memorial.
The Memorial online database (2025) lists 217,732 victims in the Tomsk Region.
10,810 were shot (almost all during the Great Terror); more than 7,000 were held in the camps; about 500 deported with their families. In addition, the database includes 197,129 names from police records. A total of 146,154 adults from other Regions (over 100,000 came from the Altai Republic and the Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo Regions) were sent to special settlements in Tomsk; many younger victims were subsequently born there (38,293).
This total includes 23,011 Soviet Germans, over half convicted in 1941; 117,816 of the earlier deportees were listed as “kulaks”. Police record the deaths of 18,464 deportees. Over 12,000 had been sent to the Tomsk Region as “dekulakised peasants” in the early 1930s.
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
V.V. Pimenov, “Songs from Komi will be heard in Itatka”, Krasnoe Znamya (Syktyvkar), 16 November 2007
Reply from Tomsk Region department for information & public relations (№ 17-293 of 13 May 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)