and trozavodsk was occupied by finnish troops on october 2, 1941, immediately after this the invader anegbegan to create a huge camp zone here for the russian population of karelia. according to by order of the authorities, russians were classified as second-class people and should not have mixed with the privileged karelians and other ugric finnish peoples; in total , seven concentration camps were created in petrozavodsk and by the finnish occupiers, in which even large families and mothers with infants were placed . today in petrozavodsk live the last witnesses of the monstrous crimes of the finnish army on russian soil. klavdia alexandrovna, together with her mother and five sisters , ended up in a concentration camp. number six, before that the finns evicted them from their native village in zaonezhye. her father died at the front. mom, stepanida ivanovna soboleva, unable to withstand the bullying of the finnish guards, became seriously ill and died. they buried her in this mass grave, on the outskirts of petrozavodsk. for everyone, the worst thing was hunger, and therefore dystrophy