The Voskresenskoe (Resurrection) graveyard took its name from the Voskresenka village, today a district of the town of Asino. From 1937 to the early 1940s it was the cemetery for Tomasinlag prisoners in the camp’s Asinovsky outpost; in the 1940s and 1950s deportees and forced settlers (Lithuanians, Estonians and Soviet Germans) were buried there. Since then the graveyard was abandoned and a large part has been taken for building or growing vegetables.
In 1989, the Asino town executive committee adopted a resolution “To officially recognise as a cemetery the burials in Voskresenka village of victims of Stalinist repression in 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s”. The remains of some Lithuanian deportees were taken back by relatives to their own country and the place was marked by metal crosses. In 1990, thanks to the efforts of the Asino local history museum and the Memorial society in Asino, a pillar dedicated “To the victims of repression in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s” was unveiled in the cemetery.
The electronic Book of Remembrance (Gedenkbuch) of Russian Germans contains biographical entries on more than 100,000 Soviet Germans, including those mobilised in camps of forced labourers. Research on the Genocide of the Lithuanian People (Lietuvos gyventoju Genocidas; 3 vols. 1999-2009) contains about 130,000 biographical entries (in Lithuanian).
The names of 75,827 Estonian citizens deported by the Soviet authorities since 1941 are listed in Vols 4, 5 and 6 of a series published in Tallinn, documenting the occupation of Estonia by the USSR between 1941 and 1988 (7 vols. 1996-2005).
Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database includes 217,732 (BR 20,603) victims in the Tomsk Region.
10,810 were shot (almost all during the Great Terror); 7,000 were sent to the camps; and about 500 deported with their families. In addition, the database includes a vast number, 197,129, from police records: 124,352 were arrested in the early 1930s (many accused of being “kulaks”) and sent to special settlements in the Tomsk Region. Over 20,000 were later deported as Germans.
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.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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30 October
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Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression
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Asino town administration
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Town officials, descendants of the victims, museum staff
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Annual event
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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have not survived
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not established
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not delineated
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Archive of the Asino local history museum
Reply № 17-293 of 13 May 2014 from Tomsk Region’s department for information and public relations to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
