Poldnevitsa settlement was created in 1939 to take Poles deported from the territories occupied by the USSR after August 1939. The number of Poles there and in neighbouring forestry and logging posts has not been established. Mortality rates were high due to starvation and an epidemic of typhus. Those who died in Poldnevitsa and surrounding settlements were buried in the graveyard at Poldnevitsa in accordance with Catholic rites; markers and headboards were placed on their graves. It is not known how many died.
In 1941-1942 after the special settlement regime was lifted most of the Poles left. Their place was taken by inhabitants of neighbouring villages who also worked in the logging and forestry industry.
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Commemorative Services
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From time to time
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Some headboards and markers have been preserved
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
G.A. Mikheyev, “The pain of the forest, the cry of Poldnevitsa”, Semya weekly newspaper, 27 October 2005, № 44 (928)
Reply by the Ponazyrevsky district administration (2004) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
