Steplag
Steplag or Stepnoy Camp Directorate, Special Camp No. 4 (Степлаг (Степной лагерь), Особлаг (Особый лагерь) № 4) was an MVD special camp for political prisoners within the Gulag system of the Soviet Union. It was established on February 28, 1948, on the base of the Jezkazgan POW camp, Kazakhstan, with the headquarters at Kengir. In 1956, Steplag was disestablished, and its camps were transferred to Kazakh SSR.[1][2]
In May-June 1954, the Kengir uprising of the inmates happened in Steplag.
Notable inmates
- Alexander Dolgun, , US embassy clerk falsely accused of espionage; author of the memoir Alexander Dolgun’s Story: An American in the Gulag.
- Vladimir Efroimson, Soviet geneticist
- Metropolitan Ioann, in Kengir copper mines
- Tatiana Okunevskaya, Russian actress
- Maria Kapnist, Ukrainian actress
References
- Приказ МВД СССР № 00219 «Об организации особых лагерей МВД»
- СТЕПНОЙ ЛАГЕРЬ , Reference book Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР ("The System of Corrective Labor Camps in the USSR")
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