Gold mines in the Soviet Union

Bodaybo () is a town and the administrative center of Bodaybinsky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is located from Irkutsk, the administrative center of the oblast.

Gold Mine in Kyrgyzstan

gold mine on the border of Azerbaijan and Armenia

gold mine in Uzbekistan

Butugychag () was a tin, gold and uranium mine and a former forced labour camp in the Kolyma region of North-Eastern Russia, present-day Magadan Oblast. ==Forced Labor Camp== The Butugychag Corrective Labor Camp () was part of the bigger Berlag, a subdivision of GULAG. The camp existed during 1945–1955 . The camp is mostly known for its deadly uranium extraction. It is mentioned by some Russian historians such as Anatoly Zhigulin. It is one of a small number of camps where prisoners mined uranium, the truth of which has only recently been recovered.