Vodopyanov NE mine prisoners burials | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

Vodopyanov NE mine prisoners burials

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№49-16

Date of burial
1935-1940s
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Address
Magadan Region, Yagodinsky district, Xatinnakh (non-existent)
Access in a populated area
Private or specialised transport
Visiting Hours or Restrictions
Unrestricted
Type of burial
Camp (prison) burial ground
Current use
Unused
Presence of memorials, etc.
No
Protected status
Not protected
Фотография 2011 года. Источник: Архив НИЦ «Мемориал»
Фотография 2011 года. Источник: Архив НИЦ «Мемориал»
Background

The Sevvostlag camp outpost at the Vodopyanov mine was in operation from 1934-1935 until the early 1940s. In 2004 surveyors from the Novy Put enterprise found human remains in the dumps of ore; they had presumably uncovered a camp burial.

Books of Remembrance

Memorial’s online database (2025) names 11,427 victims in the Magadan Region (BR 7,546). See Maldyak 49-04.

Drawing on all its sources the database names 1,833 who were sent to Sevvostlag (349 of whom died there).

 

Nature of area requiring preservation
State of burialsAreaBoundaries
Have not survived
not determined
not delineated
Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site
On land under the control of the Yagodinsky municipal district administration
Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

Materials of the Kolyma expedition (2011) – archive of the Memorial Research & Information Centre (St Petersburg)

“Vodopyanov mine prisoners burial ground”, Virtual Museum of the Gulag [retrieved, 28 May 2022; no longer accessible]

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