Vozhayol or Vozhael () is a rural settlement in
Knyazhpogostsky District
Knyazhpogostsky District (; , ''Knjažpogost rajon'') is an administrative district (raion), one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia.Law #13-RZ It is located in the west of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative cen ...
of
Komi Republic
The Komi Republic (; ), sometimes simply referred to as Komi, is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia situated in the northeast of European Russia. Its capital city, capital is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Syktyvka ...
, Russia. Formerly an urban settlement (1942/1944–1991), now it is an administrative unit of the municipality.
The
Ustvymlag
Ustvymlag () was a Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union, Komi ASSR, with the headquarters in the village of Ust-Vym, later moved to Vozhayol. The full name is Ust-Vym Corrective Labor Camp (). It was created from a detachment of Ukhtpechlag (Ð£Ñ…Ñ ...
, a forestry
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 ...
that held a maximum of 24,000 prisoners and operated from 1937 until the 1960s, was relocated into Vozhayol.
References
Rural localities in the Komi Republic
Former urban-type settlements of Komi
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