ULYANOVSK [C] Burial of those shot in the NKVD prison

Card

№73-01

Date of burial

1930s

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Address

Ulyanovsk Region, Ulyanovsk, 73-75 Lev Tolstoy Street

Access in a populated area

Public transport

On foot

Visiting Hours or Restrictions

By agreement only

Comments

Entry to the grounds of the Simbirsk Diocesan Management is restricted

Type of burial

Secret interment of executed

Current use

Commercial use

Presence of memorials, etc.

Yes

Protected status

Not protected

Background

During the Great Terror people sentenced to death were executed in the basement of the Ulyanovsk Region NKVD headquarters and in the courtyard of its inner prison. Certain cells had been equipped for the purpose. There are reports that some of those shot were buried in pits in the inner courtyard while their belongings were buried separately. In 1942 when trenches were being dug in the courtyard two bodies were found with bullet holes in their skulls. Subsequently the specially equipped basements were given brick walls and digging anywhere there was categorically forbidden.

In the 1960s the building was renovated to serve as the regional Party committee’s hotel. It changed hands several times after that. Since 1992 the offices of the Simbirsk Diocese have been based here. The grounds have not been studied. In 2005 a memorial to the Victims of Political Repression in the Ulyanovsk Region was erected within the fence of house No. 73.

Books of Remembrance

A Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression: Ulyanovsk Region (2 vols. 1996 & 2001) contains 13,600 biographical entries for those shot or sent to the Gulag.

Ceremonies

Date	Nature of ceremonies	Organiser or responsible person	Participants	Frequency
30 October	Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression	nk	nk	Annual event

Nature of area requiring preservation

State of burials	Area	Boundaries	Other sites in same area
have not survived	not determined	not delineated	Merchant Sachkov's townhouse

Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site

On land under the control of the Ulyanovsk City Administration

Sources and bibliography

[ original texts and hyperlinks ]

“The 11 May 1993 ruling of I.M. Shleikin, special investigator of the Ulyanovsk Region prosecutor’s office, concerning the criminal case of unlawful mass repression for political reasons in the years of Stalinism”, Book of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression in the Ulyanovsk Region, Ulyanovsk, 1996

I.M. Shleikin, “Unnamed graves in the courtyard”, Novaya gazeta, 16 November 2011 (No. 128)

“A memorial to the victims of political repression has been unveiled in Ulyanovsk”, Regnum information agency, 1 November 2005

“Burial site of those shot in the Ulyanovsk Region NKVD prison”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [partially retrieved, 3 June 2022]

Reply by the deputy governor of the Ulyanovsk Region (20 May 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)