One of the places in Kansk where those sentenced to death by the extra-judicial troika during the Great Terror (1937-1938) were buried was the Kan-Voznesenskoe cemetery. Those shot were buried in mass graves. The exact numbers buried there have not been established: P. Lopatin, a member of the Krasnoyarsk Memorial Society, estimates that in 1938 alone the NKVD executed 2,344 people in Kansk. The names of many are known. Those shot were buried in various parts of the cemetery and further burials were subsequently made in the same areas.
A Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression in the Krasnoyarsk Krai (13 vols. 2004-2014) includes biographical entries for 45,400 who were shot or sent to the camps.
The Memorial online database (2025) lists 55,742 victims in the Kasnoyarsk Region (Krai).
16,652 were shot, most during the Great Terror (15,032). Charges were dropped against another 8,568 individuals; 550 of them died in captivity. 22,000 were held in the camps: over 8,000 of them were arrested in 1937-1938. 8,000 were deported to special settlements in other parts of the USSR.
The Open List database names 1,596 who were shot in the city of Kansk in 1937-1938.
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not delineated
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P. Lopatin, “I dug graves on the orders of the NKVD”, Krasnoyarsky rabochy, 30 October 2004
