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Day: 11 December 2020

The unquiet dead

11 December 20202 January 2022 / editors (JC)

Scattered across the length and breadth of Russia and its immediate neighbours (especially Kazakhstan), are hundreds of neglected or concealed burial grounds. Some 1,800 are currently known; others await commemoration or discovery.

Belbaltlag prisoners’ cemetery,
discovered by Yury Dmitriev in August 2003

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Timeline (1), 1997-2018

11 December 202012 December 2020 / editors (JC)

In early July 1997, DMITRIEV together with Irina Flige and the late Veniamin Joffe discovered a huge killing field of the Great Terror near Medvezhegorsk in Karelia. Subsequently it became known as Sandarmokh.

Weeks later, in early September, he and Sergei Chugunkov identify the Krasny Bor killing field and burial ground not far from Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia.

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Students from Moscow Film School (Krasny Bor)

“Solovki transport” Memorial (Sandarmokh)

Dmitriev with daughter Katya at Sandarmokh

Protest in Petrozavodsk

City Court – Razumov and Katya in background

near Derevyannoe village, Karelia (Krasny Bor)

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Anatoly Razumov (left) and Yury Dmitriev (2004)

The entrance to Sandarmokh

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