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A list of Gulag penal labor camps in the USSR was created in Poland from the personal accounts of labor camp detainees of Polish citizenship. It was compiled by the government of Poland for the purpose of regulation and future financial compensation for World War II victims, and published in a decree of the Council of Ministers of Poland .
File:Бутовский полигон 8199.jpg More detailed map, containing not only camps ("лагеря",) but prison settlements ("лагпункты") as well. Photographed at the Butovo Firing Range Memorial
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In the early days of Gulag, the locations for the camps were chosen primarily for the isolated conditions involved. Remote monasteries in particular were frequently reused as sites for new camps. The site on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea is one of the earliest and also most noteworthy, taking root soon after the Revolution in 1918. [16]
Graves of the Lithuanian political prisoners in Vorkutlag, 20th century Map of the Vorkuta labor camp (in German). The numbers of the shafts in the circles, Map drawn between 1951 and 1956, image taken from Geography Volume XI, 1957, p. 208. Kurt Behrens: Germans in penal camps and prisons in the Soviet Union, Volume V/1/2/3.
Kharp is the location of prison/penal colonies IK-18 Polar Owl and IK-3 Polar Wolf, [6] two of Russia’s ... The town was built by Gulag prisoners during the Stalin ...
Baikal Amur Corrective Labor Camp (Bamlag) (Russian: Байка́ло-Аму́рский исправи́тельно-трудово́й ла́герь, Бамла́г) was a subdivision of GULAG which existed during 1932-1948. Its main activity was construction of the Baikal Amur Mainline and secondary railroad branches. Its peak headcount was ...
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.