In the 1930s and 1940s Ukrainians, Moldavians, Soviet Germans and representatives of other nationalities were exiled as forced settlers to the village of Gyda on the Gydansky Peninsular of the Karsk Sea. Full details of the number of settlers do not exist. The central state archive in Moscow indicates that in the Gyda fish factory alone 197 exiles were working. Those deportees who died were buried in a separate part of the village graveyard.
By the late 1990s the Gyda river had washed away part of the graveyard, exposing the burials. In 2001 thanks to the efforts of the village administration the remains of the forced settlers were reburied in a common grave. Subsequently such erosion became a frequent occurrence, repeated every 3-4 years. A wooden memorial cross has been erected over the site of the first reburial.
Since 1992 a State programme has supported and funded the publication of over 110 volumes of books of remembrance for each Ukrainian region (including Crimea) entitled Rehabilitated by History (2002-2017), listing about 600,000 names [in Ukrainian].
A Map of Memory: List of the Victims of Communist Totalitarianism [in Moldavia] (4 vols. 1999-2005) contains about 80,000 names grouped according to place of residence at the time of arrest [In Moldavian].
The electronic Book of Remembrance (Gedenkbuch) of Russian Germans contains biographical entries on more than 100,000 Soviet Germans variously sentenced under Article 58, deported as forced settlers, or mobilised in camps of forced labourers.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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Reburial in good state of preservation
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
“Mass reburial of the forced settlers exiled in 1930-1940 is taking place in Gyda settlement”, Rekviem.ru, 31 July 2001 [retrieved, 29 May 2022]
Reply No. 1/1508 (dated 22 April 2014) from the Tazovsky district administration to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
