Deportees of various nationalities were sent to Severo-Yeniseisk, then known as the Sovrudnik special settlement. In 1940, Polish citizens deported from the annexed territories of West Ukraine (“military settlers and foresters”) were confined there. Those who died were buried in the Severo-Yeniseisk graveyard, in a separate section, it is thought. In the north of the graveyard there are nameless graves with wooden or metal Catholic crosses. In 1946, the majority of the Poles returned home. The names of a few of the Polish citizens who died in Sovrudnik are known. Long-term local residents recall that there were also Lithuanians and Kalmyks among the deportees.
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Nameless graves with wooden or metal crosses; burial mounds, without headboards; characteristic subsidence indicating the location of graves
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
M. Dolgopolova, “The Severo-Yeniseisk district”, official website of the Krasnoyarsk Region
A. Podborskaya, “Poles on the banks of the Yenisei”, Den i noch, 2008, No 1
A.G. Popov, “The graveyard of Severo-Yeniseisk settlement”, 500 photos from the Ridge website [retrieved, 30 May 2022]
A.G. Popov, “the life and death of Polish settlers in Severo-Yeniseisk”, 500 photos from the Ridge website [retrieved, 30 May 2022]
Reply from the Institute of National Memory (Poland) to an enquiry from the Union of Siberians Club in Bystrzyca Klodzka [clarifying the number of Polish citizens who died in the Sovrudnik special settlement], 6 June 2014 – RIC Memorial archive, St Petersburg (in Polish)
