Ustvymlag
Gulag labor camp
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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[1]) 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, Soviet journalist and activist
- 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"