From the mid-1930s to the early 1940s two camp outposts of Volgolag developed the Shishkovo quarry in the Bezhetsk district (Tver Region). One of the camp outposts was located not far from Konstantinovo village; the other was close to Kablukovo village. According to some sources, the gravel and sand excavated at the quarry was used in the building of the Moscow Metro. The harsh conditions in which the prisoners lived and worked led to high rates of mortality. The exact places of burial and numbers buried there have not been established; name lists of prisoners are not available.
According to local inhabitants one of the camp cemeteries was not far from the village graveyard of Shishkovo-Dubrovo. On 30 October 2012, thanks to the Tver Memorial Society a commemorative monument was erected on that site. The text on the plaque reads: “In memory of the inmates of NKVD camps who died working at the Shishkovo quarry in the 1930s” (see photo). Next to the monument a metal Orthodox cross has been erected.
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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 and hyperlinks ]
S. Glushkov, “Who built the Moscow metro”, Tverlife.ru, 13 January 2011
“A commemorative monument to the victims of repression will be opened near Bezhetsk”, Afanasy-birzha online, 29 October 2012 [retrieved, 29 May 2022]
I. Mangazeyev, “A cross and memorial to the prisoners of Shishkovo quarry in the 1930s”, Deacon Andrei Kurayev’s missionary portal, 30 0ctober 2012
“Tver Memorial has erected a monument through its own efforts”, Tvernews.ru, 31 October 2012 [retrieved, 29 May 2022]
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Reply of 18 June 2014 from the Bezhetsk district administration (Tver Region) to an enquiry by the Memorial RIC (St Petersburg)
