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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 ...
The Vorkuta uprising occurred in Vorkuta at the Rechlag from 19 July 1953 to 1 August 1953. Inmates from various camp detachments who were forced to work in the region's coal mines went on strike. The uprising—initially in the form of a passive walkout—began on or before July 19, 1953, at a single "department" and quickly spread to five others.
Akukan mine uprising, 1930; Parbig uprising near Narym, 1931 [1] Ust-Usa uprising, 1942; Kolyma rebellion, 1946 [2] Vorkuta uprising, 1948 [2] Nizhni Aturyakh (Russian: Нижний Атурях) subcamp of Berlag, uprising, 1949 [2] [3] Ekibastuz strike , 1952; Norilsk uprising, 1953; Vorkuta uprising, 1953; Kengir uprising, 1954
The following lists events that happened during 1953 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... July 19 – August 1 — Vorkuta uprising [3] August
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Cox witnessed the Vorkuta uprising of 1953. He recalled that when the prisoners of Vorkutlag rioted, guards sent machine-gun fire into the crowd. While in the camp Cox met several other American and European prisoners. The one that interested him most was an Austrian girl named Inge Brenner, who was released in October 1953. Cox and Inge ...
On 19 July 1953, inmates at Vorkuta, who were forced to work in the region's coal mines, went on strike during the Vorkuta uprising.The mostly passive strike was put down on 1 August, when Soviet Army troops were ordered by the Vorkuta Gulag camp chief Derevyanko to fire at the strikers, resulting in the death of at least 53 prisoners.
The state continued to maintain the extensive camp system for a while after Stalin's death in March 1953, although the period saw the grip of the camp authorities weaken, and a number of conflicts and uprisings occur (see Bitch Wars; Kengir uprising; Vorkuta uprising). The amnesty of 1953 was limited to non-political prisoners and for political ...