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The Russian penal system, despite reforms and a reduction in prison population, informally or formally continues many practices endemic to the Gulag system, including forced labor, inmates policing inmates, and prisoner intimidation.
Unlike Gulag camps, located primarily in remote areas (mostly in Siberia), most of the POW camps after the war were located in the European part of the Soviet Union (with notable exceptions of the Japanese POW in the Soviet Union), where the prisoners worked on restoration of the country's infrastructure destroyed during the war: roads ...
Perm-36 (also known as ITK-6) was a Soviet forced labor colony located near the village of Kuchino, [1] 100 km (60 miles) northeast of the city of Perm in Russia. It was part of the large prison camp system established by the former Soviet Union during the Stalin era, known as the Gulag.
The Vorkuta camp was established by Soviet authorities a year later in 1932 for the expansion of the Gulag system and the discovery of coal fields by the river Vorkuta, on a site in the basin of the Pechora River, located within the Komi ASSR of the Russian SFSR (present-day Komi Republic, Russia), approximately 1,900 kilometres (1,200 mi) from ...
The Soviet Union's far-flung gulag system of prison camps provided inmate labor to develop industries such as mining and logging. ... 61, became the first Russian sent to prison for it, receiving ...
FKU IK-3 (Russian: ФКУ ИК-3) [nb 1] of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, [3] also known as Polar Wolf (Russian: Полярный волк, romanized: Polyarnyy volk) or Yamskaya Troika (Ямская тройка), is a men's maximum security corrective colony in the town of Kharp in the Priuralsky District in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
The prisoner population of Kolyma increased substantially in 1946 with the arrival of thousands of former Soviet POWs liberated by Western Allied forces or the Red Army at the close of World War II. [12] Those judged guilty of collaboration with the enemy frequently received ten or twenty-five year prison sentences to the gulag, including ...
Critics say the historian is being punished over his efforts to uncover Stalin's crimes as Putin vies to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's image. Russia extends prison sentence for Gulag historian ...