Vorkuta Gulag
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thumb|The Vorkuta industrial labor camp complex was located 160 km above the Arctic Circle. The city had a population of approximately 15,000 and about 50 camps with more than 50,000 inmates.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Vorkutlag
- Settlement.official_name
- Vorkuta Corrective Labour Camp, Воркутинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Forced Labour camp
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Vorkuta Gulag.jpg
- Settlement.nicknames
- Vorkuta, Vorkuta Gulag, Воркута
- Settlement.native_name
- Воркутлаг
- Settlement.pushpin_label
- Vorkuta
- Settlement.established_date
- 1932
- Settlement.extinct_date
- 1962
- Settlement.extinct_title
- Closed
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.image_caption
- Perimeter fence and watchtower, Vorkuta Gulag.
- Settlement.other_name
- Rechlag, Pекалаг
- Settlement.population_total
- 2000000
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 1932–1962
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 28.69
- Settlement.image_map
- Vorkutlag Map.png
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- prison labour camp
- Part of
- Vorkuta
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Image
- Vorkuta.jpg
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- inception
- 1938-05-10
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1962-00-00
- Commons category
- Vorkutlag
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- History
- World War II
- Working conditions
- Coal production
- Importance to Leningrad
- Lesoreid uprising, 1942
- Vorkuta Uprising, 1953
- Closing of Vorkuta camp, 1962
- Recent history
- Location
- Climate
- Notable inmates
- Notable guards and staff
- Deputy chief
- Chiefs of the special unit
- Gallery, 1940–1968
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|The Vorkuta industrial labor camp complex was located 160 km above the Arctic Circle. The city had a population of approximately 15,000 and about 50 camps with more than 50,000 inmates.
The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp (), commonly known as Vorkutlag (), was a major Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. It was in operation from 1932 until 1962.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vorkuta Gulag” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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