Tjøtta Cemetery, Nordland
The largest burial of Soviet prisoners of war in Norway: 7,551 people, Ukrainians among them.
In 1941–1945 the Nazis brought about 100,000 Soviet prisoners of war and some 9,000 civilian forced labourers to occupied Norway. According to Norway's Ministry of Culture, about 13,700 of them died on Norwegian soil — the country's largest single group of war losses; the same source names Ukrainians, Belarusians, Georgians, Tatars and other peoples among them. In 1948–1951 the Norwegian authorities carried out "Operation Asphalt": they opened about 88 burial sites in Northern Norway and moved the remains to the island of Tjøtta, destroying the monuments where they had stood. The cemetery was consecrated on 8 July 1953: 826 named graves and a mass grave holding 6,725 dead. Since 2009 the Falstad Centre has run the project "Krigsgraver søker navn", and in 2016 about 4,800 new name plaques were unveiled here.
Alstahaug municipality, on county road 17 between Sandnessjøen and the Tjøtta ferry quay; there is a lay-by with benches by the road. Free access all year round.