The Inta Corrective Labor Camp (Intalag) (russian: Инти́нский исправи́тельно-трудово́й ла́герь, Инталаг, also abbreviated as Intinlag, Intlag, and Intastroy) was a forced labor camp of the Gulag, which existed between 1941 and 1948 near the town of Inta in the

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. Prisoners at the camp were mainly engaged in the mining of local coal deposits.

History

Intalag was established on 17 November 1941 by being separated from Vorkutlag. Despite its name, the camp was not actually located at Inta until 1942, being initially located at Vorkuta. The first camp commander was Captain Mikhail Savich Zdunis, who led it until 17 July 1942, and it was subordinated to the

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(GULZHDS). The camp's prisoners were tasked with mining the Inta coal deposit and building and operating (from 11 September 1942) the Inta Central Electric System. On 27 July, Senior Lieutenant V.P. Sokolov took command of the camp, replacing Zdunis. Major G.B. Orlovsky became the camp commander on 26 March 1943. The camp was transferred to the

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(GULGMP) on 5 October. Colonel M.I. Khaleyev became camp commander on 16 September 1944, and would command the camp for the rest of its existence. The Shchugorugol camp was split off from Intalag on 15 September 1945, but reabsorbed at the end of 1946. At the beginning of 1947, the number of inmates in the camp reached 20,585, its highest size. On 30 October 1948, the camp was closed down and reorganized into

Minlag 200px, Political prisoners in Gulag eating lunch (on the left Lithuanian Pranas Ivanauskas) Minlag or Mineralny Camp Directorate (Минлаг, Минеральный лагерь, Особый лагерь № 1 (Special Camp no. 1), Особла ...

, an MVD special camp for political prisoners.

Notable inmates

Dmitry Dudko Dmitri (russian: Дми́трий); Church Slavic form: Dimitry or Dimitri (); ancient Russian forms: D'mitriy or Dmitr ( or ) is a male given name common in Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christian culture, the Russian version of Greek language, Greek De ...

, Orthodox priest and former dissident * Aleksei Kapler, film director and lover of

Svetlana Alliluyeva Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, born Stalina (); ka, სვეტლანა იოსების ასული ალილუევა () (28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only ...

, Stalin's daughterBiography of Aleksei Kapler
on kino-teatr.ru *

Maxim Stepanov Maxim Osipovich Stepanov (August 1893 – 25 September 1945) was a Soviet Union, Soviet komkor (corps commander). He fought for the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent civil war. He receiv ...

, Red Army officer (died at Intalag in 1945) * Jaan Kross, Estonian writer, served a sentence in Intalag from 1947-1950, was later sent to Krasnoyarsk krai.

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External links

Intalag
at Russian NGO

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's Virtual Museum of the Gulag {{Coord missing, Russia Camps of the Gulag 1941 establishments in the Soviet Union 1948 disestablishments in the Soviet Union