Sevzheldorlag

Sevzheldorlag (also Sevzheldorstroy, Northern Railway ITL) (Russian: Севжелдорлаг, Севжелдорстрой, Северный железнодорожный ИТЛ) was a penal labor camp of the GULAG system in the USSR. The full name was Северный железнодорожный исправительно-трудовой лагерь НКВД, Northern Railway Corrective Labor Camp of NKVD. Established on May 10, 1938, on July 24, 1950 it was merged with to make the . Top head count was 84, 893 (January 1941). The main operation was railroad construction.^[1] The sites of the camp were within Komi ASSR, East Siberia: at Kotlas railway station, Knyazhpogost settlement (including headquarters), and Zheleznodorozhny settlement (now the town of Yemva).

Administration[]

• ru:Шемена, Семён Иванович, Camp chief (May 10, 1938 – 1940)

Notable inmates[]

• Hava Volovich
• Sergey Korolyov (1940–1944)
• ru:Шрейдер, Михаил Павлович (October–December 1940, transport to the camp, 1942 – released to leave for the front of the Great Patriotic War)
• , ru:Виртанен, Ялмари Эрикович (1938 – April 2, 1939)
• Archbishop Varlaam (ru:Варлаам (Пикалов)) (1942, among several other camps)
• (ru:Амагаев, Матвей Иннокентьевич) (1940 – August 18, 1944)
• ru:Гавронский, Александр Осипович, film director; was director of the inmate theatre in Sevzheldorlag
• ru:Евгенов, Николай Иванович (1888–1964), hydrographer and oceanologist (Knyazhpogost, June 1940–February 1941; meteorologist)
• ru:Максимов, Сергей Сергеевич (1916–1967), writer (1936–1941)
• ru:Бабареко, Адам Антонович (1899–1938), Belarusian writer (Knyazhpogost, May–November 1938)

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