GUBKOV: US Commission No. UA17340101
Gubkov is located in Rovenskaya at 50÷50 27÷0, 66km from Rovno. The cemetery is located at southwest, 300 m from Executive Council. Present town population is under 1,000 with no Jews.
- Town officials: Village Executive Council - Suhlayak Ivan Aleksandrovich [Phone: (03653) 27327].
- Regional: 265434, Berezna region, Gubkov Village Executive Council of Suhlayak Ivan Aleksandrovich [Phone: (03653) 27327]. Bureau of Memorial Protection Oblast Local History Museum of Rovno, Dragomanova 19 [Phone: (03622) 21833].
- Jewish Community of Rovno, Shkolnaya, 39 [Phone: (03622) 69993].
- Others: State Oblast Archive of Rovno, Moskovskaya Street, 26a [Phone: (03622) 23304]. Jerusalem, Fereration of Volhynian Jews.
The earliest known Jewish community was 17-18 [sic]. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 916. Effected Jewish Community: Khmelnitskiy's pogroms and World War I. The Jewish cemetery was established in 17th century with last known Hasidic (Karlin-Stolinskaya) Jewish burial in 1942. Sosnovoye, (4km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated rural wooded hillside and crown of a hill by water has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. 101 to 500 stones, most in original location and between 25%-50% toppled or broken, date from the 19th to 20th century. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery has only common tombstones. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the property used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are agricultural. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. The cemetery is visited occasionally by organized Jewish group tours or pilgrimage groups and local residents. The cemetery was vandalized not in the last 10 years. There has been cleared vegetation. Local/municipal authorities did the work. Now, authorities clear or clean occasionally. Within the limits of the cemetery is pre-burial house ruin. Vegetation overgrowth is a constant problem, disturbing graves and stones. Serious threat: vegetation overgrowth. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion and vandalism. Slight threat: pollution.
Kirzhner Moisey of 263005, Lutsk, Grushevskogo Prospect 18,apt.38 [Phone: (03322) 34775] visited site on 24/05/1996 and completed survey on on 25/09/1996. Interviewed were Kostyusko Apolon and Andreevich, Sosnovoye, of Partizanskaya Street, 17 on 24/09/1996. Documentation: see at section 14. [sic] Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
