Vorkuta Gulag
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.
Article
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.