The following is a list of
prisoner-of-war camps in the
Soviet Union during
World War II. The Soviet Union had not signed the
Geneva convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War in 1929.
Polish POWs
On September 19, 1939,
Lavrenty Beria (the
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs) ordered
Pyotr Soprunenko to set up the NKVD
to manage camps for Polish prisoners. The following camps were established to hold members of the
Polish Army:
*
Yukhnovo (rail station of
Babynino Babynino (russian: Бабынино) is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
* Babynino (selo), Babyninsky District, Kaluga Oblast, a '' selo'' in Babyninsky District, Kaluga Oblast
*Babynino (settlement), Babyninsky District, Kaluga O ...
),
*
Yuzhe (
Talitsy
Talitsy (russian: Талицы) is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural localities in Russia.
Modern localities
*Talitsy, Ivanovo Oblast, a ''village#Russia, selo'' in Yuzhsky District of Ivanovo Oblast
*Talitsy, Ist ...
)
*
Kozelsk
Kozelsk (russian: Козе́льск) is a town and the administrative center of Kozelsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Zhizdra River (Oka's tributary), southwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast. Populatio ...
*
Kozelshchyna
*
Oranki
*
Stolbnyi Island
Stolobny Island is an island on Lake Seliger in the Tver Oblast of Russia, about north of the town of Ostashkov.
Nilov Monastery
The island is the home of Nilov Monastery, which was founded by Saint Nilus in 1594, and previously welcomed up ...
on
Lake Seliger near
Ostashkov (
ru)
*
Putyvl (rail station of
Tyotkino),
*
Starobelsk (
ru)
*
Vologod (rail station of Zaenikevo),
*
Gryazovets
German POWs
*
Voikovo prison camp
Hungarian POWs
*
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Komsomolsk-on-Amur ( rus, Комсомольск-на-Амуре, r=Komsomolsk-na-Amure, p=kəmsɐˈmolʲsk nɐɐˈmurʲə) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the west bank of the Amur Rive ...
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