Peschanaya, Irkutsk Oblast on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Peschanaya (russian: Песч́аная) is a village in the 
Olkhonsky District
Olkhonsky District (russian: Ольхонский райо́н) is an administrative district, one of the thirty-three in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.Charter of Irkutsk Oblast Municipally, it is incorporated as Olkhonsky Municipal District.Law #69-oz ...
of Irkutsk region
Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizh ...
of Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
, a part of the Khuzhirskiy municipal unit. Located in the bay Nurganskaya Guba in the middle part of the western coast of Olkhon Island, in 12 km northeast from the village Kharantsy.
In the late 1930s near the village a correctional labor camp
A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especi ...
was established for those convicted of hooliganism and larceny.
The camp was a part of 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, the barracks were fenced with barbed wire.
The prisoners worked on fishing boats, at the fish factory and a sawmill.
References
{{Authority control Rural localities in Irkutsk Oblast Camps of the Gulag Populated places on Lake Baikal Olkhon Island