Late in 1951, deported Lithuanians were transported to the “41st section” timber-felling area of the //Laisk logging company (also known as Old Barracks). Inhabitants of the surrounding villages recall that a great number of Lithuanian children died during the winter of 1951 /1952. They were buried according to Catholic rites. The settlement survived until the late 1950s.
In 1990-1991 a delegation from Lithuania visited the settlement and a metal cross bearing 24 names was erected in the graveyard. In a number of cases their bodies were exhumed by relations and taken back to Lithuania for reburial. The total number who died here has not been established. In 2011, the graveyard was visited by the Lithuanian youth expedition “Destination, Siberia”, led by Gintautas Alekna. Expedition members restored the crosses and name plates, removed fallen trees from the graveyard and surrounded that part with a wooden fence.
Research on the Genocide of the Lithuanian People (Lietuvos gyventoju Genocidas; 3 vols. 1999-2009) contains about 130,000 biographical entries (in Lithuanian). Volume 3 covers the period from 1948 onwards.
Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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33 headboards survived in 2003. Crosses on graves had fallen, surrounding fences were destroyed and the names on the headboards had disappeared.
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not established
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Letter from B.A. Maidonas to the Memorial society in Asino (1990) – archives of the Asino local history museum
L. Ulanova, “An abandoned graveyard”, Obraz zhizni (Asino), 29 October 2009
R. Drąsutytė, Senyvo amžiaus moterų trauminių prisiminimų rekonstrukcija: Magistro baigiamasis darbas, Kaunas, 2012 (in Lithuanian)
V.K. Mikhaleva, “The Tomsk Region is my home”, Tomskaya nedelya, 28 March 2014