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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.
Perm-36 (also known as ITK-6) was a Soviet forced labor colony located near the village of Kuchino, [1] 100 km (60 miles) northeast of the city of Perm in Russia. It was part of the large prison camp system established by the former Soviet Union during the Stalin era , known as the Gulag .
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 ...
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 ]
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.
The camp was closed and prisoners relocated to other camps in October 1946. [2] After the closing of Special Camp No. 3, the Hohenschönhausen compound served as a Soviet prison during the winter of 1946–1947. The former cafeteria was converted to the underground prison area ("submarine") by prison labour. [4]
Integral map of the camps of the system of the Main Administration of Camps that existed from 1923 to 1967, based on data from the human rights society "Memorial" Correctional labour camps (Russian: исправительно–трудовой лагерь), were penal labour camps in the Soviet Union.
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 ...