In September 1920, during the Red Terror, Cossack hostages from the Dakhovskaya cantonment were executed summarily on the outskirts of the settlement. The exact numbers shot is not known.
In 1993, A. Goltsev, grandson of one of the victims, helped establish a memorial on the burial site: a granite pillar with a depiction of an Orthodox cross, it bears plaques that read: “We bow our heads in silence, brothers”, “Let us remember the Cossacks of our cantonment, shot here by the Bolsheviks in September 1920. May they never be forgotten”.
In 2009, 43 gravestones bearing the names of those shot, 42 Cossacks and a priest, were placed on the burial site in symbolic order. Their identity was established from memoirs and archival documents. In October 2012, an avenue of remembrance was created there.
Entries for Adygea are included in the Book in Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression in the Krasnodar Region (8 volumes, 2005-2015).
The Memorial online database (2025) includes 90,069 names of victims in the Krasnodar Region (Krai; BR 34,696).
11,885 were shot, most during the Great Terror (11,271) – 48 executions in 1920 are listed. Over 16,000 were sent to the camps; charges were dropped against 1,306 detainees (18 of whom died in captivity); and 3,642 were deported. (Police records name a further 55,373 forced settlers and deportees, see Chamlykskaya [23-09].)
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
September
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Dakhovskie commemorations
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Ataman of Kuban Cossack Host
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Cossacks, clergy, inhabitants of Dakhovskaya cantonment, schoolchildren from the Orthodox lyceum, and district and republican officials
|
Annual event
|
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
|
have not survived
|
0.35 hectares
|
Not delineated
|
[ original texts and hyperlinks ]
Kazachi vesti (Krasnodar), 20 September 2003
Z.A. Gobechiya, “Decossackization and dekulakization of Cossacks in the 1920s: the case of the Maikop department”, Issues in Cossack History and Culture, No 5, Maikop, 2000
A. Ivanov, “An avenue of remembrance in Dakhovskaya cantonment”, Mayak (Maikop), 3 November 2012
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Reply from the Maikop district administration (№ 1230 of 25 March 2014) to a formaly enquiry from RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
