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Itatka village (c)* Tomasinlag & deportees

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№70-05

Date of burial
1930s-1940s
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Address
Tomsk Region, Tomsky district, Itatka village (outskirts)
Access in a populated area
On foot
Comments
Southeast outskirts of Itatka village, adjoining the graveyard
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Deportees’ graveyard
Current use
Cultural and/or educational purposes
Ceremonial events
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2013 года. Источник: http://aos1986.livejournal.com/11030.html
Фотография 2013 года. Источник: http://aos1986.livejournal.com/11030.html
Background

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.

Books of Remembrance

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”).

Ceremonies
DateNature of ceremoniesOrganiser or responsible personParticipantsFrequency
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Civil rites and Commemorative Services
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From time to time
Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Subsidence over the burials
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Itatka rural settlement administration, Tomsky district. Pupils from the Itatka middle school have an informal responsibility for looking after the memorial area
Sources and bibliography

[ 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)

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