3-4. Lokchimlag/Ustvymlag (1937-1960) | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

3-4. Lokchimlag/Ustvymlag (1937-1960)

Set up in August 1937. Forestry; max. prisoners 26,000 (1939); HQ Pezmog, Komi; merged August 1940 with 4. Ustvymlag (set up in August 1937). Forestry; max. prisoners 24,000 (1943); HQ Vozhael, Komi; still functioning January 1960 (see The Gulag in Northwest Russia).

Nine sites

Sukhinichi (c) Execution & Burial site (Kaluga Region), 1937-1938. The one site commemorating those who died in Lokchimlag which is not in the Komi Republic names priests from Central Russia shot in the camp during the Great Terror.

 

All but one of the other sites are located in the Kortkeross district of the Komi Republic.

 

Mordino village. Lokchimlag burials, 1930s-1940

 

Terebei village. Lokchimlag & deportees graveyard, 1938-1942

 

Shudog ss* Forced settlers & Lokchimlag graves, 1930s-1940s

 

Adzherom. Burials in Lokchimlag commandant’s zone, 1930s-1940s

 

Ust-Lokchim settlement [C] Graveyard, 1930s-1950s

 

Chernorechensky settlement** Ustvymlag burial ground, 1930s-1950s

 

Nidz settlement [C] Disabled prisoners graves, 1930s-1950s

 

Adzherom* Lokchimlag burial ground, 1938-mid-1950s

 

Kortkeross village [C]* Deportees graveyard, 1941-1956

[JC, January 2025]

3-4. Lokchimlag/Ustvymlag (1937-1960)