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), Особлаг № 1) was an

MVD special camp MVD special camps of the Gulag (russian: Особые лагеря МВД, особлаги, ''osobye lagerya'', osoblags) was a system of special labor camps established addressing the February 21, 1948 decree 416—159сс of the USSR Council of ...

for

political prisoner A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although n ...

s within the

Gulag The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ...

system of the Soviet Union. It was established on February 28, 1948 based on the Inta labor camp (Inta ITL),

Komi ASSR The Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Коми Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; kv, Коми Автономнӧй Сӧветскӧй Социалистическӧй ...

. In 1954, after

Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

's death it was reorganized into an ordinary Mineralny Corrective Labor Camp (Минеральный ИТЛ, Mineralny ITL).МИНЕРАЛЬНЫЙ ЛАГЕРЬ
, Reference book ''Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР'' ("The System of Corrective Labor Camps in the USSR")

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