From its establishment in 1938, one division of the Krasnoyarsk corrective-labour camp complex (Kraslag) was located in Kansk. The prisoners worked in the logging industry and built the Kansk hydroelectric factory. Those who died were buried in the camp burial ground, not far from the aerodrome. Executions of prisoners, sentenced to death, also took place there; those shot were buried in mass graves. The exact number of those buried there is unknown. Today the burial ground is covered by new buildings.
The Memorial online database (2025) lists 55,742 victims in the Kasnoyarsk Region (Krai).
16,652 were shot, most during the Great Terror (15,032). Charges were dropped against another 8,568 individuals; 550 of them died in captivity. 22,000 were held in the camps: over 8,000 of them arrested in 1937-1938. 8,000 were deported to special settlements in other parts of the USSR.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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have not survived
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
Letter from G.P. Kapustinsky to the Memorial Society in Krasnoyarsk, 23 December 1993 – archive of the Krasnoyarsk Memorial Society
Reply by the Kansk City Administration (No 1335 of 19 June 2014) to a formal enquiry from RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
