Burial places on the Zolotaya gora, Memorial site in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The burial places on Zolotaya gora is a memorial site with stone monuments located on elevated ground in the northern outskirts of Chelyabinsk. The terrain holds multiple commemorative structures arranged across the area with inscribed text on the monuments.
Gold was mined here from 1843 by prospectors from Vyatka; the Marinsky mine worked shafts up to 50 metres deep until 1935. In 1989 the newspaper Chelyabinsky Rabochy published former prospector Yu. Gerasimov's account of bodies seen in the shafts in 1946. Excavations that summer recovered 350 remains, all dated 1936–1939, reburied in a mass grave on 9 September 1989; about 1,000 more were exhumed in 1990.
The hill was first called Lysaya gora and took the name Zolotaya gora after gold was found here in 1843 by prospectors from Vyatka; the Marinsky mine worked it until the shafts closed in 1935. The names of those exhumed could not be established, so no individual is named at the site. Mourning meetings are held by the memorial on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions.
The site sits on open ground that is easy to walk through and explore on foot without obstacles. Access comes from 250-letiya Chelyabinska street on the northern side of the city near residential areas.
The hill was first called Lysaya gora (Bald Mountain); it took the name Zolotaya gora after gold was found there in 1843 by prospectors from Vyatka, who worked it through the Marinsky pit until the shafts, up to 50 m deep, closed in 1935. Several stones from the hill were used in Moscow's Wall of Grief in 2017.
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