Kostomarovo village* Yuzhlag burials | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Kostomarovo village* Yuzhlag burials

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№38-106

Date of burial
1938-1941
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Address
Irkutsk Region, Taishetsky district, Kostomarovo rail station
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
1 km from Kostomarovo rail station
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Excursions
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2006 года
Фотография 2006 года
Background

From 1938-1941, one of the camp outposts of Yuzhlag with vehicle repair workshops was located at Kostomarovo rail station. Those prisoners who died were buried one kilometre away.

In the 1990s the burial ground was studied by a group of local historians including Ye.S. Seleznyov from Taishet. In 2006 a metal Orthodox cross was erected there thanks to the efforts of the Biryusa-Memorial society and pupils of School No. 85 (both from Taishet).

Books of Remembrance

Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database (2025) lists 102 victims who served their time in Yuzhlag, 40 of whom died there. (Most were arrested in 1937 and came from Belorussia.)

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
A few burial mounds and characteristic subsidence
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Taishetsky district administration. The cemetery is cared for by the Biryusa Memorial society in Taishet
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

Ye.S. Seleznyov, “The first memorials to the inmates of the Gulag have been erected in the Taishet region”, Biryusinskaya dolina website

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