Forced settlers of all categories were sent to Kadzherom from the 1930s to 1950s. Prisoners from Sevzheldorlag, building the Northern Railroad, and POWs were also buried there. The burials of prisoners and forced settlers from the 1940s have not survived.
In 2007, next to Kadzherom’s old cemetery where forced settlers were also buried in the 1950s, a memorial was erected, “In memory of those who perished during the years of mass political repression”.
Repentance: the Komi Republic Martyrology of the Victims of Mass Political Repression (11 vols. 1998-2016), includes biographical entries on a total of 65,000 individuals ranging from dekulakized peasant families, former citizens of Poland, to Soviet German forced labourers.
Тhe Memorial online database (2025) lists 1,221 individuals who were held in Sevzheldorlag (848 sentenced in 1940) and names 94 who died in captivity but does not specify where they died or were buried. It also names many families, often headed by women (495 individuals in all) who were sent to Kadzherom from the Voronezh, Kursk and Vologda Regions, and from Ukraine, many in the early 1930s; 73 of them were later born there.
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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nk
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Commemorative Services
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nk
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nk
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From time to time
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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Burial mounds, subsidence indicating burial location, a few headboards
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not establshed
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not delineated
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T.G. Afanasyeva, “Materials for a guide to the Pechora district of the Komi republic” (manuscript), Pechora, 2013
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“Kadzherom settlement. Graves of deportees”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved on 26 May 2022; no longer accessible]
Reply from the Komi Republic Ministry of Culture, No. 06-17-1230 of 30 April 2014, to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
