KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR. Prisoners at hospital | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR. Prisoners at hospital

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№27-07

Date of burial
1940s
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Address
Khabarovsk Krai, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Amurlitmash district
Access in a populated area
Public transport
On foot
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Commercial use
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Background

In the 1940s prisoners from Nizhneamurlag [1939-1955] were buried in the cemetery at hospital No 2 of Construction Project No 500, an area presently occupied by the Amur Foundry & Machine Engineering Plant (Amurlitmash). Mortality was high, reaching 30-40 deaths a day in 1943. The numbers buried in the cemetery have not been established and their names remain unknown.

The location of the hospital and the cemetery were indicated by witnesses from among the staff at the plant. Currently, the area they occupied is given over to the orchards of Amurlitmash.  

Books of Remembrance

“I would like to recall them all by name”: A martyrology [of the Khabarovsk Krai] (5 vols. 1998-2002) includes 26,000 biographical entries on those shot and sent to the camps.

The Memorial online database (2021) lists 30,192 victims from the Khabarovsk Region Book of Remembrance. 8,298 were shot (7,305 during the Great Terror); almost 10,000 were held in the camps.

And see The Gulag in the Soviet Far East (1929-1958).

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
have not survived
not defined
unmarked
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur City Administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

M.A. Kuzmina, The Traces of Trampled Graves, Memorial: Komsomolsk-on-Amur, 2007 (88 pp)

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