In the 1930s one place where those who inhabitants of Tyumen and the Tyumen Region were shot or who died in prison was the city’s Tekutyevskoe cemetery. The exact numbers buried there is unknown. The burials are in various parts of the cemetery; in most cases they have been covered by later graves. The cemetery was closed in 1962.
In 1996 thanks to a proposal from the Tyumen city Society of the Victims of Political Repression and the city administration’s Commission for Restoring the Rights of Rehabilitated Victims of Political Repression the city paid for a memorial in the form of a brick wall with a marble plaque: “As a sign of remembrance and forgiveness of our unjustly slain forbears, shot in 1937-1938, from the heirs of Russia’s tragedy”. The monument was dismantled in 1998 and replaced by a granite boulder crowned by a cross. On the attached plaque is an inscription: “In memory of the victims of Stalinism, 1937-1938. Here lie quietly ordinary citizens, peaceful people who were not slain in war”.
A Book of Those Shot: A Martyrology of People Slain by the NKVD during the Great Terror: Tyumen Region (3 vols. 1999-2004) includes 7,700 biographical entries on those shot in 1937-1938.
The Memorial online database (2025) includes 38,874 victims in the Tyumen Region (BR 7,673). The database lists 7,642 who were shot, 6,847 during the Great Terror. Two police sources add only a few who were held in the camps.
They name 407 who” died in captivity” but almost all were living in special settlements. 6,198 were deported to and from the Region as members of “dekulakised” families (3,990) and later by reason of their “nationality” (1,922). A great many others (25,002) were, according to local police records, either sent from different parts of the USSR to special settlements within the Tyumen Region (20,361) or were born there (4,169).
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
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5 May
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Anniversary of the beginning of mass repression in Tyumen Region (1937)
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Tyumen City Association of Victims of Political Repression
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Relatives of the victims, members of the public
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Annual event
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30 October
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Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression
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Tyumen Region administration
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Representatives of town and regional administrations, Memorial Society, relatives of the victims, clergy, schoolchildren
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Annual event
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
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have not survived
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not determined
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not delineated
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Reply by Tyumen City Administration (№ 03-06-1421/4 of 14 May 2014) to a formal enquiry from RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
Reply by the deputy governor of Tyumen Region (№ 21/6195n/14-3463 of 19 May 2014) to a formal enquiry by RIC Memorial (St Petersburg)
