Ustvymlag
Ustvymlag or Ust-Vym corrective labor camp (Russian: Устьвымлаг, Усть-Вымский ИТЛ) was a Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union, Komi ASSR, with the headquarters in the village of Ust-Vym, later moved to Vozhayol. It was created from a detachment of Ukhtpechlag (Ухтпечлаг[1]) on August 16, 1937. After the dismantling of the Gulag system, it remained a corrective labor camp of the Soviet penal system until 1960.[1][2][3]
The main industry of the camp was logging and related production. The maximal occupation of 24,245, registered in 1943.[2]
In 1942, a labor detachment of Volga Germans "mobilized for labor" was housed in the camp. Since 1945, it also detained prisoners of war.[2]
It should not be confused with the earlier Ust-Vym corrective labor camp (1931-1932) used to man the constructions of the Syktyvkar-Ukhta road and Pinyug-Syktyvkar railway.[4]
Notable inmates
[edit]- Jānis Alksnis, Soviet military commander and military scientist
- Georgy Astakhov, Soviet diplomat
- Dāvids Beika, Soviet Latvian activist and intelligence officer
- Valenting Gudievsky, Russian criminal boss, "thief in law"
- Boris Gusman, Soviet author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda
- Ekaterina Kalinina, wife of Mikhail Kalinin, the chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and formally the head of the Soviet state[3]
- Bishop Veniamin (Milov)
- Archbishop Varlaam (Pikalov)
- Lev Razgon, Soviet journalist and activist
- Georgy Statsevich, Soviet functionary
- Mikhail Viktorov, Soviet NKVD functionary
References
[edit]- 1 2 УСТЬВЫМСКИЙ ИТЛ (archived)
- 1 2 3 Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР, 1923–1960: справочник, compiled by М. Б. Смирнов; editors: Н. Г. Охотин, Arseny Roginsky, Мoscow, 1998. excerpt online
- 1 2 Узники «священной» реки
- ↑ УСТЬ-ВЫМСКИЙ ИТЛ ОГПУ