According to the Tyumen Region FSB, one place of burial for those shot during the Great Terror in the city’s NKVD Prison was the premises of the former abattoir and the DOSAAF aerodrome, an area popularly known as the Birch Grove (Beryozovaya roshcha). The precise numbers buried there are unknown.
In 1997 a monument was placed there. A granite boulder it bears a plaque with an inscription: “Here lie the remains of the victims of mass repression, 1937-1938. May they never be forgotten”. By order No. 3349 (3 November 1997) of the Tyumen City Administration the land was designated a place of mass burial and permission was given to landscape the Birch Grove Square. In 2003, however, the town-planning committee took a decision to build a residential block on part of the land and it was built despite the protests of Tyumen city’s inhabitants.
A Book of Those Shot: A Martyrology of People Slain by the NKVD during the Great Terror: Tyumen Region (3 vols. 1999-2004) includes 7,700 biographical entries on those shot in 1937-1938.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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30 October
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Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression
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Tyumen Region administration
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City and Regional officials, Memorial Society, relatives of the victims, clergy, schoolchildren
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Annual event
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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have not survived
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not determined
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not delineated
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Reply by Tyumen City Administration (№ 03-06-1421/4 of 14 May 2014) to a formal enquiry from RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
Reply by the deputy governor of Tyumen Region (№ 21/6195n/14-3463 of 19 May 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
