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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 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 ...
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] Nizhni Aturyakh (Russian: Нижний Атурях) subcamp of Berlag, uprising, 1949 [2] [3] Ekibastuz strike , 1952; Norilsk uprising, 1953 ...
Soviet Military Guard after the Suppression of the Lesoreid Uprising. On January 24, 1942, having lured most of the guards to wash in the bathhouse, the prisoners disarmed the rest (one VOKHR [camp guard] shooter was killed and another was wounded), after which, locking all the Vokhrovites in a vegetable storehouse, they opened the camp zone and announced to everyone about the uprising.
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The GULAG Operation was a German military operation in which German and Soviet anti-communist troops were to create an anti-Soviet resistance movement in Siberia during World War II by liberating and recruiting prisoners of the Soviet GULAG system.
The railway was a project of the Soviet Gulag system that took place from 1947 until Stalin's death in 1953. Construction was coordinated via two separate Gulag projects, the 501 Railway beginning on the River Ob and 503 Railway beginning on the River Yenisey , part of a grand design of Joseph Stalin to span a railway across northern Siberia 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 ...