The Shchuchy Mys special settlement for dekulakized peasant families was set up in the Kargasoksky district in 1931.
Deported Latvians, Soviet Germans and forced settlers from Moldavia were sent there in 1941. Those who died were buried in mass and individual graves in a cemetery half a kilometre to the south of the village.
In summer 2006, the territory of the special settlement and the graveyard was investigated by the “Forgiveness and Memory” local history group of the Kargasoksky district.
The Memorial online database (2025) includes 217,732 victims in the Tomsk Region, 197,129 from police records who were either deported from other Regions to special settlements in the Region (146,154), or who were subsequently born there (38,300). This total includes 23,011 Soviet Germans, over half convicted in 1941; 117,816 of the earlier deportees were listed as “kulaks”.
Police record the deaths of 18,464 deportees: more than 12,000 of them had been sent to the Tomsk Region as “dekulakised peasants” in the early 1930s.
(The Novosibirsk Region Book of Remembrance lists 34 individuals, many from villages in the Suzunsky district, who were deported tо Shchuchy Mys in 1931 with their families, some of whom died there while others fled detention.)
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
N.G. Mongolina, “A brief essay on the history of the Kargasoksky district”, Zemlya Kargosokskaya, Tomsk, 1996
The “Forgiveness and Memory” expedition, 2006-2007, Tomsk, 2008 (123 pp)
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Reply from the information & public relations department of the Tomsk Region (№ 17-293 of 13 May 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
