Svirlag
Sign in to saveSvirlag, SvirLAG (Svirskiy Lager' – Svir Concentration-Camp, , also ' / ' – ) was a Soviet forced labour camp run by NKVD's GULAG Directorate. It was located on the river Svir (hence the name Svirskiy in Russian) in the forests by the town Lodeynoye Pole, 244 km north-east of Saint Petersburg, in Leningrad Oblast, operated in the 1930s (Joseph Stalin's time) and onwards. SvirLAG concentration camp was supplier of wood to Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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- prison labour camp
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- Soviet Union
- Location
- Alexander-Svirsky Monastery
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Svirlag, SvirLAG (Svirskiy Lager' – Svir Concentration-Camp, , also ' / ' – ) was a Soviet forced labour camp run by NKVD's GULAG Directorate. It was located on the river Svir (hence the name Svirskiy in Russian) in the forests by the town Lodeynoye Pole, 244 km north-east of Saint Petersburg, in Leningrad Oblast, operated in the 1930s (Joseph Stalin's time) and onwards. SvirLAG concentration camp was supplier of wood to Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
The administration of the camp was based in Svirstroy (Svir Construction Directorate) on the Svir River. The convicted inmates worked in mines extracting mica, stone and clay.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Svirlag” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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