Baikal Amur Corrective Labor Camp (Bamlag) () was a subdivision of

GULAG The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of runnin ...

which existed during 1932-1948. Its main activity was construction of the

Baikal Amur Mainline Lake Baikal is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia between the Federal subjects of Russia, federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast, Irkutsk Oblasts of Russia, Oblast to the northwest and the Repu ...

and secondary railroad branches. Its peak headcount was about 201,000 (1938). In 1938 it was dismantled into several railroad support camps: Amurlag, :ru:Южлаг, :ru:Западный железнодорожный ИТЛ, :ru:Востоклаг, :ru:Юго-Восточный железнодорожный ИТЛ, :ru:Бурлаг. Its administration was headquartered in the settlement of

Svobodny, Amur Oblast Svobodny () is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Zeya River, north of Blagoveshchensk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 63,889 ( 2002 Census); History It was founded in 1912 in conjunction wi ...

. For the most time it was headed by Naftaly Frenkel (1934-1938), who also headed the construction directorate of BAM (1933-1938).

Notable convicts

* , Russian poet, novelist and translator *

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych Borys Antonenko-Davydovych (), born Borys Davydov () was a Ukrainian writer, translator and linguist. During the Great Purge he was sentenced to the death penalty, which was later replaced with ten years jail in a gulag. Antonenko-Davydovych wrote ...

, Ukrainian writer, translator and linguist *

Pavel Florensky Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P. A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; ; ; – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and f ...

, Russian Orthodox theologian and philosopher«Скопище шевелящихся людей»: как СССР строил БАМ
/ref> *, Russian poet and translator *

Konstantin Rokossovsky Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky ( 1896 – 3 August 1968) was a Soviet and Polish general who served as a top commander in the Red Army during World War II and achieved the ranks of Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland. He a ...

, Soviet marshal, and Defense Minister of the

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. *Абиссов, Александр Афанасьевич *Анфилов, Глеб Иосафович *Аргунов, Андрей Иванович *Богданов, Евгений Иванович *Варпаховский, Леонид Викторович *Вермель, Юлий Матвеевич *Воловик, Георгий Георгиевич *Герман (Кокель) *Ковалёв, Лев Борисович *Легейдо, Дмитрий Константинович *Матвеев, Андрей Фёдорович *Таранушенко, Стефан Андреевич *Фасмер, Рихард Рихардович *Цветаева, Анастасия Ивановна

References

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