Spassk Memorial, Memorial cemetery and monument in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.

Spassk Memorial is a cemetery complex with crosses and monuments honoring those who died at a former detention facility in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. The grounds include mass graves and separate sections where different nations have placed their own commemorative structures.

The cemetery holds 5,152 prisoners of war and internees of various nationalities who died in the Spassk camp, established on 5 July 1941 as Camp No. 99 on the site of the former Spassk copper smelter. It also contains graves of Soviet citizens repressed from the Spassk branch of Karlag and, after 1948, from the Steppe, Lugovoy and Peschaniy camps.

Since the 1990s, foreign governments have erected memorials here to their citizens who died in the Karaganda camps: Japan first, then France, Italy and Finland in 1994, Germany in 1995, followed by Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine, Armenia, Russia and Romania. A shanyrak-shaped monument honours all victims of political repression who died on Kazakh soil.

The memorial is located south of Karaganda on the road toward Almaty and requires private transportation or taxi arrangements. Check with local sources for current access conditions before planning your visit.

The first foreign monument here was installed by Japan; France, Italy and Finland followed in 1994, Germany in 1995, and later Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine, Armenia, Russia and Romania. In May 2014 a monument to Belarusians was unveiled, and on 31 May 2015 memorials to Estonians and to Spaniards of the Blue Division.