Vyatlag* German forced labourers | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Vyatlag* German forced labourers

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№43-08

Date of burial
early 1940s to 1951
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Address
Kirov Region, Verkhnekamsky district, former Ima station (Gaino-Kaiskaya railroad)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Comments
7 kms from former Ima station, 10 kms on the branchline to Pashnyak, accessible on foot.
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Excursions
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Background

From the early 1940s up to 1952 camp outpost 12 of Vyatlag was located near the former Ima rail station. It held German forced labourers from the Soviet German Republic on the Volga. Those inmates who died were buried in individual and mass graves in a special burial ground in the woods.  

Books of Remembrance

The electronic Book of Remembrance of Soviet Germans (Gedenkbuch) 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.

Memorial’s Victims of Political Terror database (2025) names over forty forced labourers from the Soviet German Republic on the Volga, imprisoned in the Region’s camps.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Some subsidence in the soil indicating burials
Not determined
Not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Verkhnekamsky district administration.
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

V. Shapsha, “Our homeland, the Razdelnaya station”, Vyatlag website

N.Yu. Belykh, The economy of the Gulag as a system of forced labour: Materials from Vyatlag, 1938-1953, Moscow, 2011

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