Sevzheldorlag (also Sevzheldorstroy, Northern Railway ITL) (russian: Севжелдорлаг, Севжелдорстрой, Северный железнодорожный ИТЛ) was a penal

labor camp A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (espec ...

of the

GULAG The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the State Political Directorate, GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= ...

system in the USSR. The full name was Северный железнодорожный исправительно-трудовой лагерь НКВД, Northern Railway Corrective Labor Camp of

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

. Established on May 10, 1938, on July 24, 1950 it was merged with North Pechora ITL to make the Pechora ITL. Top head count was 84, 893 (January 1941). The main operation was railroad construction.Севжелдорлаг
at the Virtual Museum of GULAG The sites of the camp were within

Komi ASSR The Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Коми Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; kv, Коми Автономнӧй Сӧветскӧй Социалистическӧй ...

East Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...

: at

Kotlas Kotlas (russian: Ко́тлас) is a town in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda Rivers. Population: Kotlas is the third largest town of Arkhangelsk Oblast in terms of population (after ...

railway station, Knyazhpogost settlement (including headquarters), and Zheleznodorozhny settlement (now the town of

Yemva Yemva (russian: Е́мва; kv, Емва, ''Jemva'') is a town and the administrative center of Knyazhpogostsky District of the Komi Republic, Russia, located on the Vym River northeast of Syktyvkar. Population: History It was founded as a sett ...

Administration

* :ru:Шемена, Семён Иванович, Camp chief (May 10, 1938 – 1940)

Notable inmates

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 ...

Sergey Korolyov Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (russian: Сергей Павлович Королёв, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ kərɐˈlʲɵf, Ru-Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.ogg; ukr, Сергій Павлович Корольов, ...

(1940–1944) * :ru:Шрейдер, Михаил Павлович (October–December 1940,

transport Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipel ...

to the camp, 1942 – released to leave for the front of the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a Theater (warfare), theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Polish Armed Forces in the East, Poland and other Allies of World War II, Allies, which encom ...

) * Jalmari Virtanen, :ru:Виртанен, Ялмари Эрикович (1938 – April 2, 1939) * Archbishop Varlaam ( :ru:Варлаам (Пикалов)) (1942, among several other camps) * Matvey Amagayev ( :ru:Амагаев, Матвей Иннокентьевич) (1940 – August 18, 1944) * :ru:Гавронский, Александр Осипович, film director; was director of the inmate theatre in Sevzheldorlag * :ru:Евгенов, Николай Иванович (1888–1964),

hydrographer Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary ...

and oceanologist (Knyazhpogost, June 1940–February 1941; meteorologist) * :ru:Максимов, Сергей Сергеевич (1916–1967), writer (1936–1941) * :ru:Бабареко, Адам Антонович (1899–1938), Belarusian writer (Knyazhpogost, May–November 1938)

References

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