KRASNYYE OKNY

KRASNYYE OKNY:     US Commission No. UA15390101
Alternate names: Okne, Okny (Yiddish). Krasnyye Okny is located in Odesskaya at 47º32 29º27, 150 km from Odessa. The cemetery is located north, 350m from center. Present town population is 5,001-25,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Executive Council.
-- Regional officials: Tarturinskiy Regional Department of Culture - Denisova Vera Ivanovna [Phone: (04847) 31456]. Oblast Executive Council Oblast Department of Culture - Borodavko Roman Isaakovich (0482) 251351 (0482) 220415 [Phone: (0482) 225345].
-- Odessa Jewish Community - Milshteyn Feliks Il'ich [Phone: (0482) 226590].
     The earliest known Jewish community was end 19 [sic]. 1939 Hasidic population (census) was 1972 with last known Jewish burial 1990. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated rural (agricultural) hillside has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A broken fence with no gate surrounds site. 101 to 500 stones, most in original location with between 25%-50% toppled or broken, date from 19th to 20th century. Location of any removed tombstones is unknown. The cemetery has no special sections. Some tombstones have iron decorations or lettering, portraits on stones, and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the site used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are agricultural and residential. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. Occasionally, Jewish or non-Jewish private visitors and local residents stop. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access, existing nearby development and proposed nearby development. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution, vegetation and vandalism.
     Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya Street 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482) 665950] on 2/3/95. Interviewed was Kesar Nikolay Mironovich on 2/3/95. Shwartz Yulia Nikolayevna of 253152, Kiev, Buchmy Street, 5/1, Apt. 8 [Phone: (044) 5503228] completed survey on 04/01/1996. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.