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The largest camps consisted of more than 25,000 prisoners each, medium size camps held from 5,000 to 25,000 inmates, and the smallest, but most numerous labor camps operated with less than 5,000 people each. [1] Even this incomplete list can give a fair idea of the scale of forced labor in the USSR.
After World War II, the number of inmates in prison camps and colonies sharply rose again, reaching approximately 2.5 million people by the early 1950s (about 1.7 million of whom were in camps). When the war in Europe ended in May 1945, as many as two million former Russian citizens were forcefully repatriated into the USSR . [ 79 ]
Soviet special camps (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Prisons in the Soviet Union" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. ... Solovki prison camp ...
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 05:07 (UTC). Text ...
The detachment (отряд or otryad) is the basic unit of the prison. [10] When not in the detachment, prisoners are required to participate in penal labor , which is in the form of work brigades in colony production zones where prisoners earn a wage of which most is paid to the colony for their upkeep.
A 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius shows the location of "Salofki". Solovetsky Islands on a map of the White Sea. The Solovki special camp (later the Solovki special prison), was set up in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea as a remote and inaccessible place of detention, primarily intended for socialist opponents of Soviet Russia's new Bolshevik regime.
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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 ...