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41st section settlement (c)* Lithuanian graveyard

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№70-19

Date of burial
1951-1957
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Address
Tomsk Region, Asinovsky district, Baturino, Laisk logging company / Old Barracks (uninhabited)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
20 kms south of Baturino, 5 kms south of former Tungussky Bor settlement
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Deportees’ graveyard
Current use
Excursions
Ceremonial events
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2004 года. Фотограф: Г.Алекна
Фотография 2004 года. Фотограф: Г.Алекна
Background

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.

Books of Remembrance

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.

Ceremonies
DateNature of ceremoniesOrganiser or responsible personParticipantsFrequency
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
33 headboards survived in 2003. Crosses on graves had fallen, surrounding fences were destroyed and the names on the headboards had disappeared.
not established
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Asinovsky district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ 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

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