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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 .
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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.
Camps of the Gulag (3 C, 35 P) S. Solovetsky Islands (2 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Geography of Gulag" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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 ...
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