Sevzheldorlag
Sevzheldorlag (also Sevzheldorstroy, Northern Railway ITL) (Russian: Севжелдорлаг, СевжелдорÑтрой, Северный железнодорожный ИТЛ) was a penal labor camp of the GULAG system in the USSR. The full name was Северный железнодорожный иÑправительно-трудовой лагерь ÐКВД, Northern Railway Corrective Labor Camp of NKVD. Established on May 10, 1938, in July 24, 1950 it was merged with North Pechora ITL to make the Pechora ITL. 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)
- Jalmari Virtanen, ru:Виртанен, Ялмари Ðрикович (1938 – April 2, 1939)
- Archbishop Varlaam (ru:Варлаам (Пикалов)) (1942, among several other camps)
- Matvey Amagayev (ru:Ðмагаев, Матвей Иннокентьевич) (1940 – August 18, 1944)
- ru:ГавронÑкий, ÐлекÑандр ОÑипович, film director; was director of the inmate theatre in Sevzheldorlag
- ru:Евгенов, Ðиколай Иванович (1888–1964), hydrographer and oceanologist (Knyazhpogost, June 1940–February 1941; meteorologist)
- ru:МакÑимов, Сергей Сергеевич (1916–1967), writer (1936–1941)
- ru:Бабареко, Ðдам Ðнтонович (1899–1938), Belarusian writer (Knyazhpogost, May–November 1938)
References
- ↑ Севжелдорлаг, at the Virtual Museum of GULAG