Ozerlag (Озерлаг) was an

MVD special camp MVD special camps of the Gulag (, ''osobye lagerya'', osoblags) was a system of special labor camps established addressing the February 21, 1948 decree 416—159сс of the USSR Council of Ministers of February 28 decree 00219 of the Soviet Mini ...

(''osoblag No. 7'', ''osoby lager No. 7'') in the Soviet

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 ...

labor camp A labor camp (or labour camp, see British and American spelling differences, spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are unfree labour, forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment. Labor camps have ...

system for

political prisoner A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although ...

s. It was established in 1948 near

Tayshet Tayshet ( rus, Тайшет, p=tɐjˈʂɛt, lit. ''cold river'' in the Kott language) is a town and the administrative center of Tayshetsky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Irkutsk, the administrative center of the obl ...

and included a chain of camp sites (''lagernye punkty'') along the

Baikal–Amur Mainline The Baikal–Amur Mainline (, , , ) is a broad-gauge railway line in Russia. Traversing Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, the -long BAM runs about 610 to 770 km (380 to 480 miles) north of and parallel to the Trans-Siberian Railway. ...

branches constructed by the inmates, up to

Bratsk Bratsk (, ; ) is a Types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara, Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir. It had population of . Etymology The name of the city, which is from the same ro ...

and later further to

Ust-Kut Ust-Kut () is a town and the administrative center of Ust-Kutsky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located from Irkutsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Located on a western loop of the Lena River, the town spreads out for over alo ...

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Notable detainees

* Leo Bauer (1912–1972), German political activist and journalist *

Moisei Beregovsky Moisei Beregovsky (1892 – 12 August 1961, ; ) was a Soviet Jewish folklorist, musicologist and ethnomusicologist from the Ukrainian SSR who was a key figure in the study of Jewish music. He collected, studied and published about klezmer music, ...

(1892–1961), Ukrainian Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist * (born 1949), French historian * (1890–?), Estonian military commander *

Jazep Hermanovich Jazep Hiermanovich (also Yazep Germanovich, Belarusian Latin alphabet: Jazep Hermanovič; ; , 4 March 1890 - 26 December 1978) was a Belarusian Greek Catholic priest, poet and Gulag survivor. Early life Hermanovich was born in Halshany into ...

(1890–1978), Belarusian Greek Catholic priest and poet *

Oleksander Hrekov Oleksander Petrovych Hrekov (; 4 December 1875 – 2 December 1958) was a general of the Imperial Russian Army and Ukrainian People's Army. He was a commander-in-chief of the army of the West Ukrainian National Republic during the Polish-Ukrai ...

(1875–1958), Ukrainian military commander *, Lithuanian engineer, member of anti-Soviet resistance *

Mikhail Kalik Mikhail Naumovich Kalik (; 27 January 1927 – 31 March 2017) was a Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter. Life and career A descendant of a prominent Kyiv Jewish family, Mikhail Kalik grew up in the heart of Moscow. As a teenager, ...

(1927–2017), Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter * (1902–1997), Estonian military commander * (1926–2013), Slovak political prisoner *

Victor Krasin Victor Aleksandrovich Krasin (also spelled Viktor Krasin, , 4 August 1929 – 3 September 2017) was a Russian human rights activist, economist, a former Soviet dissident and a political prisoner. At the time of his death Krasin was a US citizen. ...

(1929–2017), Russian human rights activist and economist * Yuriy Lytvyn (1934–1984), Ukrainian lyrical and prose writer, journalist and human rights activist *

Hugo Pärtelpoeg Hugo Osvald Pärtelpoeg (7 February 1899 in , Tartu County – 29 April 1951 in Irkutsk Oblast) was an Estonian lawyer and politician. From 18 September 1944 to 22 September 1944, he was Minister of Finance (Estonia), Minister of Finance in Otto ...

(1899–1951), Estonian lawyer and politician *

Algirdas Petrusevičius Algirdas Petrusevičius (born 23 February 1937 in Klaipėda) is an anti-Soviet dissident, partisan and political prisoner, a leader in the creation of Lithuania's army, an inventor of weapons for guerrilla warfare, and a member of Lithuania's parl ...

(born 1937), Lithuanian anti-Soviet dissident *

Viktoras Petkus Viktoras Petkus (17 May 1928 – 1 May 2012) was a Lithuanian political activist and Soviet dissident. He was a founding member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group in 1976 which set out to document violations of human rights in the Soviet Union. Fo ...

(1928–2012), Lithuanian political activist *

Hugo Raudsepp Hugo Raudsepp (10 July 1883 – 15 September 1952) was an influential and prolific Estonian playwright and politician. Cody, Sprinchorn 2007, p. 428. In 1951 he was deported to the Irkutsk region by the Soviet authorities, where he died. Raun 200 ...

(1883–1952), Estonian playwright and politician *

Lidia Ruslanova Lidia Andreyevna Ruslanova (sometimes spelt ''Lidiya'' or ''Lydia'', ; 27 October 1900 in Saratov Governorate – 21 September 1973 in Moscow) was a performer of Russian folk songs. Early life She was born in the village of Chernavka near Saratov, ...

(1900–1973), Russian folk singer *

Iryna Senyk Iryna Senyk (Ukrainian, Іри́на Миха́йлівна Се́ник; June 8, 1926, Lviv - October 25, 2009, Boryslav) was a Ukrainian poet, nurse, and Soviet political dissident. She was imprisoned in Stalinist camps as were her mother and b ...

(1926–2009), Ukrainian poet and nurse * (1911–1955), Soviet draughts player *

Adam Stankievič Adam Stankievič (, , January 6, 1892 – November 29, 1949) was a Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer. Stankievič was one of ideologists of the Belarusian Christian democratic movement in the early 20th century. Adam Stank ...

(1882–1949), Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer *

Manfred Stern Manfred (Moses) Stern (; also known as Emilio Kléber, Lazar Stern, Moishe Stern, Mark Zilbert; 1896–1954) was a member of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence. He served as a spy in the United States, as a military advisor in China, and gaine ...

(1896–1954), Soviet spy *

Andrei Tsikota Archmandrite Andrei Tsikota MIC ( zh, 祁高德, , Andrej Cikota, , also Andrew Cikoto;Maya Ulanovskaya Maya Aleksandrovna Ulanovskaya (also known as Maiia Ulanovskie and Maria Ulanovsky) (Russian: Майя Александровна Улановская) (Hebrew: מאיה אולאנובסקאיה) (October 20, 1932 – June 25, 2020), was an Ame ...

(1932–2020), American-born Russian-Israeli writer and translator *

Nina Virchenko Nina Opanasivna Virchenko (; born May 5, 1930) is a Ukrainian mathematician, academic, author, and member of the Ukrainian resistance movement. While a student in Kyiv in 1948, she was arrested on charges of Ukrainian nationalism, and was a polit ...

(born 1930), Ukrainian mathematician, academic and author *

Hava Volovich Hava Vladimirovna Volovich ( :ru:Волович, Хава Владимировна;1916–2000), was a Ukrainian writer, actress, puppet theater director and Gulag survivor. In literary value and historical witness, her notes from the Soviet forc ...

(1916–2000), Ukrainian writer, actress, puppet theater director *

Sergey Voytsekhovsky Sergey Nikolayevich Voytsekhovsky (; ; 16 October 1883 – 7 April 1951) was a Russian military leader who was a colonel in the Imperial Russian Army, a major-general in the White Army, and a general in the Czechoslovak Army. He was a participan ...

(1883–1951), Imperial Russian, White movement and Czechoslovak military commander *

Ivan Ziatyk Ivan Ziatyk (, ; December 26, 1899 May 17, 1952) was a Ukrainian Priesthood in the Catholic Church, Catholic priest, Redemptorists, Redemptorist, and lecturer, considered to be a martyr by the Catholic Church. Early life Ziatyk was born on Dece ...

(1899–1952), Ukrainian Catholic priest

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