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In 1931 a geologist settlement was established by the coal field, with most of the workers being inmates of the Ukhta-Pechora Gulag camp. 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 ...
The Vorkuta Uprising was a major uprising of forced labor camp inmates at the Rechlag Gulag special labor camp in Vorkuta, Russian SFSR, USSR from 19 July (or 22 July) to 1 August 1953, shortly after the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria on 26 June 1953. The uprising was violently stopped by the camp administration after two weeks of bloodless standoff ...
Vorkuta (Russian: Воркута́; Komi: Вӧркута, romanized: Vörkuta; Nenets for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner") [8] is a coal-mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle in the Pechora coal basin at the river Vorkuta. In 2010, its population was 70,548, down from 84,917 in 2002.
This is an incomplete list of uprisings in the Gulag: . Akukan mine uprising, 1930; Parbig uprising near Narym, 1931 [1]; Ust-Usa uprising, 1942; Kolyma rebellion, 1946 [2]; Vorkuta uprising, 1948 [2]
"He literally created this prison camp," Marty Rathbun, a former executice who left Scientology in 2004, said in "Going Clear" of his time in the Hole. "It was inevitable that I wasn't going to ...
Noble was sent to the Vorkuta Gulag, at the northernmost Urals railhead in Siberia. Doing a variety of menial jobs during his imprisonment, the highest being a uniformed lavatory attendant for the staff, he took part in the Vorkuta uprising of July 1953 as a prominent leader. According to Noble the Vorkuta camp and many other camps which were ...
Ahead of reparations report, Don Tamaki, a Japanese American attorney and member of the reparations task force, reflects on fighting for prison camp survivors.
The incredible story of how POWs played golf at the ‘Great Escape’ prison camp. Jack Bantock, CNN. March 9, 2024 at 3:00 AM.