In 1938 Susuman became the centre of Dalstroi’s western mining department; in 1949-1956 the headquarters of Sevvostlag’s western department were located here. The hospital cemetery is within the city limits, next to houses (now uninhabited) on Transportnaya Street. Often number plates have partially survived on the stakes marking the burials and certain of the interments can be determined by the burial mounds. The total number buried here has not been established.
The boats will come for us: A list of rehabilitated individuals, executed in the Magadan Region (vol. 1, 1999) includes biographical entries for 7,546 who were shot.
Drawing on that source and police records, Memorial’s online database (2025) names 11,427 victims in the Magadan Region (BR 7,546) See Maldyak 49-04
Using all its sources the database names 1,833 who were sent to Sevvostlag (349 of whom died there).
| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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Burial mounds, stakes with number boards
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not determined
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
N.V. Litvinova, “Many years have passed since then …” Gornyak Severa, 24 October 2013
“Prisoners’ cemetery at central camp hospital (West Dalstroi) in Susuman”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022; no longer accessible, August 2025]
