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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 ...
On the eve of World War II, Soviet archives indicate a combined camp and colony population upwards of 1.6 million in 1939, according to V. P. Kozlov. [62] Anne Applebaum and Steven Rosefielde estimate that 1.2 to 1.5 million people were in Gulag system's prison camps and colonies when the war started. [65] [66]
A corrective colony (Russian: исправительная колония, romanized: ispravitelnaya koloniya, abbr. ИК/IK) is the most common type of prison in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. [further explanation needed] Such colonies combine penal detention with compulsory work (penal labor).
Gulag or Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerej was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The Gulag penal system was restricted, with little to no communication between different camps, and were not discussed in the wider Soviet society. [4] As a result, each camp developed its own culture and set of rules, each functioning as distinct ...
According to the decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union 1443–719c of October 25, 1956, all correctional labour camps of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union were to be transferred to the subordination of the Ministries of Internal Affairs of ...
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 ...
Prisoners at an Amur Cart Road camp, between 1908 and 1913 Bashkirs conducting convicts to Siberia, painted by William Allan, 1814 Katorga , a category of punishment within the judicial system of the Russian Empire , had many of the features associated with labor-camp imprisonment: confinement, simplified facilities (as opposed to prisons ...
On September 19, 1939, Lavrenty Beria (the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs) ordered Pyotr Soprunenko to set up the NKVD Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees to manage camps for Polish prisoners. The following camps were established to hold members of the Polish Army: Yukhnovo (rail station of Babynino), Yuzhe