A bowed cross appeared for Solovetsky prisoners on the site of former logging in the Arctic

In the area of the Tiksha River between Kandalaksha and Umba, a bowing cross was established on the site of former logging, where prisoners of the Solovetsky concentration camp worked. This was reported by the press service of the Murmansk diocese.

The expedition was headed by the head of the diocesan commission for the canonization of holy Archpriest Vasily Volsky. In official documents, these logging were called “Kolvitsky business trips”.

The trip was attended by local historian and commission employee Dmitry Loskutov, who learned about these places from old-timers. According to eyewitnesses, among the prisoners were people of spiritual rank. In the 1930s, they were driven in winter from Kandalaksha across the ice of the bay to shorten the path. Those who died and died were put under the ice.

During the expedition, they found the remains of the barracks for prisoners of the third department of USLON, dugouts for protection, a stove-stone at the place of the bath and the remains of a dam on the river along which the forest was rafted. The cross was established, consecrated and performed the mortuary lithia.

Earlier, “MK in Murmansk” said that on the basis of “Kuelporr” consecrated the chapel and baptized the builder in the river.