In the 1940s several dozen families of deported Lithuanians, Moldavians and Soviet Germans lived in Belostok village. The forced settlers were buried in the forest, 50 metres from the village graveyard. Those who died were buried in individual graves and crosses were placed over them. The exact numbers of men, women and children who lie there is not known. Local residents call this the “Russian” graveyard as distinct from the village Polish graveyard.
In 1950 the graveyard was accidentally destroyed by a drunk tractor driver and the crosses were subsequently used as fuel. At present the graveyard is covered with young trees and bushes.
The Memorial online database (2025) includes 217,732 victims in the Tomsk Region. See Mount Kashtak.
It lists 197,129 individuals from police records who were either deported from other Regions to special settlements in the Region (146,154), or subsequently born there (38,300). This includes 23,011 Soviet Germans, half of whom were convicted in 1941. 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; 743 Germans are recorded as having died between the 1930s and 1950s.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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have not survived
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0.25 hectares
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not delineated
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Materials of the museum of the Belostok Polish village in Siberia
