In 1942-1956 mobilised Soviet Germans were located in the Second Section settlement, working on the Korkino open cast coal mine. Those forced labourers who died were buried in unmarked common graves on land adjoining the settlement’s own graveyard. The numbers who died is unknown. Early in 2000 a rail branch line was laid across the area.
The electronic Book of Remembrance of Soviet Germans (Gedenkbuch) contains biographical entries on more than 100,000 Soviet Germans variously sentenced under Article 58, deported as forced settlers or forcibly mobilised in camps of forced labourers.
The Memorial online database (2025) includes 32,342 victims in the Chelyabinsk Region (BR 22,836).
Almost 12,000 were held in the camps; over 800 were deported from the Region. Police records add and name 9,429 German women and men transferred from elsewhere to special settlements in the Chelyabinsk Region, 2,375 of whom were sent to Korkino.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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Subsidence over common graves next to the railway line
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
M. Morozova, “A ghostly cemetery has vanished beneath the earth”, Chelyabinsky rabochy, 25 August 2006
