MIRGOROD

MIRGOROD I:     US Commission No. UA16120101
Alternate name: Mirgorod Yashan (Yiddish) and Mirarid (Hungarian). Mirgorod is located in Poltavskaya at 49º58 33º36, 146 km from Konotop and 105 km from Poltava. The cemetery is located at NW part of the town, Gogolya str. 205. Present town population is 25,001 - 100,000 with 11 - 100 Jews.
-- Local officials: Region Executive Committee. Chairman Tretetzkiy Vasiliy Philippovich of Lenina St. 17. Grigorenko Ivan Dmitriyevich of (05355) 52409.
-- Regional: Region Executive Committee of Poltava. Others: Region State Archive. 314011, Poltava, Pushkina 18/24 - Kukoba Ekaterina Ivanovna. Region Krayevedchesky Museum of Mirgorod. Gogolya Str. 110, Director - Grin A.D.
The earliest known Jewish community was 18th centuary. 1926 Jewish population (census) was 1994. Effecting the Jewish Community were 1905 Pogroms, 1918-1919 Petlurovsky pogroms and Nov.3, 1941 Holocaust. The Jewish cemetery was established in the 19th century. Buried in cemetery is Rabbi Fishbeyn. The last known Hasidic burial was 1994. Velikiye Sorochintzy (26 km away) and Homutets (26 km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous fence with non-locking gate surrounds. 101 to 500 stones, most in original location with less than 25% stones toppled or broken, date from 19th to 20th century. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery has no special sections. Some tombstones have traces of painting on their surfaces, iron decorations or lettering, portraits on stones and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns site used for Jewish cemetery only. Properties adjacent are residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of commercial or industrial development. Occasionally, Jewish or non-Jewish visitors and local residents stop. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II. Jewish individuals within country cleaned stones and cleared vegetation in 1930s. Now, occasionally individuals clean or clear. Within the limits of the cemetery is a pre-burial house. Vegetation overgrowth is a constant problem, disturbing graves. Water drainage is a seasonal problem. Very serious threat: existing nearby development (Shop was developed). Serious threat: uncontrolled access (gate is not locked). Moderate threat: weather erosion, pollution and vegetation. Slight threat: vandalism and proposed nearby development.
Sokolova Eleonora Eugen'evna of 253152, Kiev, Tychiny St. 5, apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited site and completed survey on 4/11/95. Interviewed was Rudgayzer M.L. of Gogolya St. 169 [Phone: (05355) 52321] on 4/11/95. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
MIRGOROD II:     US Commission No. UA16120501
The 1941 mass grave is located at NNW. No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered at this unlandmarked mass grave. The isolated suburban hillside has signs or plaques in local language mentioning the Holocaust. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. 1 to 20 stones, all in original location with none toppled or broken, date from 1985. No stones were removed. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns mass burial site. Properties adjacent are commercial or industrial. Fequently, rganized individual tours, private Jewish or non-Jewish visitors and local residents visit. The mass grave was not vandalized. Local/municipal authorities did re-erection of stones in 1985. Occasionally, authorities clean or clear. Within the limits of site are no structures. Slight threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion, pollution, vegetation and vandalism.
Sokolova Eleonora Eugen'evna of 253152, Kiev, Tychiny St. 5, apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited site and completed survey on 4/12/95. Interviewed were Rudgayzer M.L. of Gogoly St. 169 [Phone: (05355) 52321] on 4/11/95 and Chapenko Viktor of Komsomolskaya St. 22/5 [Phone: (05355) 52525] on 4/12/95. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.