KORKINO Second settlement. Graves of forced labourers | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

KORKINO Second settlement. Graves of forced labourers

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№74-07

Date of burial
1942-1950s
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Address
Chelyabinsk Region, Korkino district, Korkino, Second Section
Access in a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
On southern outskirts of a non-residential district of the Second Settlement
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Unused
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Background

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.

Books of Remembrance

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

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Subsidence over common graves next to the railway line
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Korkino City Administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

M. Morozova, “A ghostly cemetery has vanished beneath the earth”, Chelyabinsky rabochy, 25 August 2006

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