In 1918-1919, in oak woods on the right bank of the Vyatka river (near the mouth of the Vasyovka river), the local Cheka executed and buried inhabitants of the Kotelnichsky district. Those to be shot were brought to the location by steamboat. The total numbers executed in the district during the Red Terror are unknown. A list of 67 men and women shot between 2 September and 20 October 1918 was published in Red Terror (1918, No 1), the first issue of the local Cheka’s weekly newspaper.
According to local residents the burials were uncovered in the 1960s and 1970s by erosion of the river bank.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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Excursions
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Have not survived
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not established
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
M. Zhukovsky, The Cheka is authorised to announce …, Moscow, 2004
L.N. Rychkov and M.V. Krinitsyna, “Ground between the millstones of history”, Vikshil village and its surroundings [retrieved, 27 May 2022]
Ya.V. Spitsyn, Memoirs (manuscript), Museum of peasant history, Kotelnichsky district, Leninskaya iskra settlement
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Reply by the Kotelnichsky district duma (№ 80 of 15 May 2014) to a formal enquiry from RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
