Temnoe village* Kalmyk mass grave | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Temnoe village* Kalmyk mass grave

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№72-18

Date of burial
1944-1946
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Address
Tyumen Region, Ishimsky district, Pervopesyanoe rural settlement, Temnoe village (outskirts)
Access outside a populated area
Private or specialised transport
On foot
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Deportees’ graveyard
Current use
Burial ground and/or commemorative site
Presence of memorials, etc.
Yes
Protected status
Not protected
Background

In January 1944 more than 200 deported Kalmyks were quartered in Temnoe. Their exact number is not known. The men, women and children who died in a typhus epidemic were buried in a common grave on the edge of the village.

In July 2010 a memorial was placed on the site of the burial.

Books of Remembrance

A Book in Remembrance of the Kalmyk Nation’s Deportation (3 vols, 12 books: 1993-2004) covers the years from 1944 to 1957 and consists of three volumes: 1. Deportation; 2. Life in Exile; and 3. Work, War and Return.

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
have not survived
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Pervopesyanoe rural settlement, Ishimsky district
Sources and bibliography

[ original texts and hyperlinks ]

“In the Tyumen Region the memory of the Kalmyk nation, victims of deportation, has been commemorated”, Interfaх, 12 July 2010 [retrieved, 29 May 2022]

Reply by the deputy governor of Tyumen Region (№ 21/6195p/14-3463 of 19 May 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)

Reply by the deputy governor of Tyumen Region

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