UFA cemetery [C]** Executed and Prison dead

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№02-02

Date of burial

1930s

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Address

Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa, "50th Anniversary of Victory" Square

Access in a populated area

Public transport

On foot

Visiting Hours or Restrictions

Unrestricted

Type of burial

Secret interment of executed

Camp (prison) burial ground

Current use

Cultural and/or educational purposes

Excursions

Ceremonial events

Presence of memorials, etc.

Yes

Protected status

Not protected

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Background

The Novoivanovskoe graveyard in Ufa was opened in the late 19th century. It was closed for burials at the end of the 1940s. During the 1930s those shot before and during the Great Terror, and those who died in the city’s prisons were buried there.

Part of the graveyard was destroyed as the city expanded in the 1960s and 1970s; another part was turned into the square of the 50th Anniversary of Victory. In 2000 the government of the Republic of Bashkortostan funded the erection of a monument on the square to the victims of political repression: a column 6 metres high behind which there is a bronze sculpture of a mother with an infant in her arms. A separate cross on a plinth was also erected to “Russian Germans: Victims of Political Repression”.

Books of Remembrance

A Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression in the Bashkortostan Republic (7 vols, 1997-2011) contains over 50,000 biographical entries.

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.

The Memorial online database (2025) lists 49,732 individuals recorded as victims in the Bashkortostan Republic Book of Remembrance: the majority are listed as born in the Republic (36,211).

5,963 were shot, most during the Great Terror (4,687); 25,000 were sent to the camps – in 1930-1933 (11,891) and in 1937-1938 (8,220); and 8,000 were exiled from Bashkortostan, mostly in 1930-1931 (7,649). More than 5,000 others were arrested but not convicted, over half in the early 1930s.

Ceremonies

Date	Nature of ceremonies	Organiser or responsible person	Participants	Frequency
30 Oct.	Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression	Ufa City administration	City officials, the Association of Victims of Political Repression, public	Annual event

Nature of area requiring preservation

State of burials	Area	Boundaries
have not survived	not determined	not delineated

Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site

On land under the control of the Ufa City Administration

Sources and bibliography

[ original texts and hyperlinks ]

S. Valieva, “Secrets of old graveyards preserve the memory of many victims of repression”, Leninets (Ufa), 12 August 1989

Reply No. 01-02-8451/7, dated 24 March 2014, from the Ufa City Administration to a formal enquiry from RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

Reply from the Ufa City Administration