The Galka special settlement was created in 1930 as an outpost of the Bogoslovsk forestry concern by dekulakized peasant families from Ukraine and Kuban. Those who died were buried in mass and individual graves in a cemetery at the mouth of the Galka river. The settlement ceased to exist in the mid-1960s, and the cemetery has been abandoned since then.
The 2025 Memorial online database names 38,697 victims in the Sverdlovsk Region (BR 36,494), half of whom were local residents. See Yekaterinburg memorial.
Drawing on a variety of sources, but especially the Krasnodar Krai police records, the database lists families and individuals (total 13,162) deported to the Sverdlovsk Region: 6,276 were “dekulakised” or born in special settlements; 589 were later deported by reason of their “nationality”.
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Have not survived
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not established
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not delineated
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[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]
N. Paegle, Behind the barbed wire in the Urals, Krasnoturinsk, 2004
“Weekend expedition of class 11B, 28 November 2013”, website of school No 5, Karpinsk
