Ustvymlag
Ustvymlag (‹See Tfd›Russian: Устьвымлаг) 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 (‹See Tfd›Russian: Усть-Вымский ИТЛ). 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 at least until 1958.
The main industry of the camp was logging and related production. The maximal occupation of 24,245, registered in 1943.
In 1942 a labor detachment of Volga Germans "mobilized for labor" was housed in the camp. Since 1945 it also detained prisoners of war.
Notable inmates
- Lev Razgon
- Boris Gusman, Soviet author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda
- Bishop Veniamin
- Jānis Alksnis, Soviet military commander and military scientist
- Georgy Statsevich, Soviet functionary
- Archbishop Varlaam (Pikalov)
- Georgy Astakhov, Soviet diplomat
- Dāvids Beika, Soviet Latvian activist and intelligence officer
- Mikhail Viktorov, Soviet NKVD functionary
- Valenting Gudievsky, Russian criminal boss, "thief in law"
References
- ^ УСТЬВЫМСКИЙ ИТЛ
- ^ Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР, 1923–1960: справочник, compiled by М. Б. Смирнов; editors: Н. Г. Охотин, Arseny Roginsky, Мoscow, 1998.