Ustvymlag

Ustvymlag (Russian: Устьвымлаг) was a Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union, Komi ASSR, with the headquarters in the village of Ust-Vym, later moved to Vozhayol. The full name is Ust-Vym Corrective Labor Camp (Russian: Усть-Вымский ИТЛ). It was created from a detachment of Ukhtpechlag (Ухтпечлаг, ) on August 16, 1937. After the dismantling of the Gulag system it remained a corrective labor camp of the Soviet penal system at least until 1958.[1][2]

The main industry of the camp was logging and related production. The maximal occupation of 24,245, registered in 1943.[2]

In 1942 a labor detachment of Volga Germans "mobilized for labor" was housed in the camp. Since 1945 it also detained prisoners of war.[2]

Notable inmates
  • Lev Razgon
  • Boris Gusman, Soviet author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda
  • Bishop Veniamin
  • Jānis Alksnis, Soviet military commander and military scientist
  • Georgy Statsevich, Soviet functionary
  • Archbishop Varlaam (Pikalov)
  • Georgy Astakhov, Soviet diplomat
  • Dāvids Beika, Soviet Latvian activist and intelligence officer
  • Mikhail Viktorov, Soviet NKVD functionary
  • Valenting Gudievsky, Russian criminal boss, "thief in law"

References
  1. УСТЬВЫМСКИЙ ИТЛ
  2. Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР, 1923–1960: справочник, compiled by М. Б. Смирнов; editors: Н. Г. Охотин, Arseny Roginsky, Мoscow, 1998.

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