Nazino or Nazinsky Island is to be found on the lower reaches of the Ob river opposite its namesake, Nazino settlement at the mouth of the Nazinki river. Here a group of forced settlers perished in May-June 1933. Among the local population and in the historical literature it is known as the “Island of Death”. On 18 and 26 May 1933 a large group (6,114 people) was landed on the uninhabited island as part of the OGPU operation to cleanse the major Soviet cities of “declasse elements”. It was assumed that they would later be allocated to logging outposts in the coniferous forest (taiga) along the Ob river. By the end of June 2,000 of the deportees had died of hunger, cold and disease. No graveyard was organised: the graves of the dead were scattered across the island, some bodies were not buried. Because of the changing course of the river the burials have not survived.

In June 1993 a six-metre commemorative cross was erected there thanks to Tomsk Memorial with a plaque bearing the inscription: “To the victims of political repression, 1933-1993”. Subsequently the memorial was lost. In 2006 the missionary department of the Tomsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church put up a new cross. The plaque bears a plaque that reads: “May all the souls of the innocents slain here in the godless years find the peace of God with all his saints”.