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As a rule, they were situated in remote parts of the USSR, and labor conditions were extremely hard there. They formed a core of the GULAG system. The inmates of "corrective labor colonies" served shorter terms; these colonies were located in less remote parts of the USSR, and they were run by local NKVD administration. [4]
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 ...
The town and the camp were located in the North Eastern part of the Komi ASSR 8 km (4.9 mi) below the urban locality of Oktyabrskii (Октябрьский), 13 km (8 mi) West of the village Sovetsky (Советский) and 14 km (8.6. mi) East of Zapolyarny (Заполярный). The surrounding localities, villages, towns and lands were all ...
Karlag (by Karaganda) and other camps in the area. Karlag (Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, Russian: Карагандинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь, Карлаг) was one of the largest Gulag labor camps, located in Karaganda Oblast (now Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan), Kazakh SSR, USSR.
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...
View of the city of Kharp from the south; IK-3 is located to the right of the smokestack. The city of Kharp was built by Gulag prisoners during the Stalin era. [5] [6] The colony was founded on 21 August 1961 on the former camp unit of the 501st Gulag construction site. [3] [7] It was initially known as "YATs-34/3".
After the death of Stalin the number of camps in the USSR decreased, but the communist political system remained repressive till its collapse. In 1960-80s thousands of dissidents were placed in prisons, political camps, mental hospitals. "Perm-36" Memorial Museum is the only preserved саmр of the GULAG еrа throughout the former USSR.
Butugychag Tin Mine – a Gulag camp in the Kolyma area. The initial efforts to develop the region began in 1932, with the building of the town of Magadan by forced labor. [6] (Many projects in the USSR were already using forced labor, most notably the White Sea–Baltic Canal.)