Unzhlag or Unzhensky ITL (Unzhensky corrective

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 ...

) (russian: Унжлаг, Унженский ИТЛ) was a camp of the GULAG system of

s in the Soviet Union. Named after the Unzha River, it has headquarters at the railway station Sukhobezvodnoye (Сухобезводное, Сухобезводная), Gorky Oblast. It operated from February 5, 1938 to 1960. The main operation was

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and wood processing industries, but also served a wide variety of other small-scale industries: construction, metalworking, railroad servicing, clothing, footwear, pottery production, etc. The camp had 30 sites ('' lagpunkts''). There is a small museum of Unzhlag on the private property of a

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enthusiast Mikhail Shulegin in the village .

Notable inmates

Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli ( az, Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli), also spelled Chemenzeminli, born Yusif Mirbaba oghlu Vazirov (12 September 1887 – 3 January 1943) was an Azerbaijani statesman and writer known for his novels, short stories, essays ...

, Azerbaijani statesman and writer. *

Dalia Grinkevičiūtė Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (1927–1987) was a Lithuanian physician and writer. She is best known for her memoirs of exile and repression by the Soviet Union. These were published in multiple editions, starting in 1979. They are now part of the Lithuan ...

, Lithuanian school girl deported in June 1941 who later wrote a memoir about her experiences * Lev Kopelev describes his experience in Unzhlag in his book, ''To Be Preserved Forever''.Lev Kopelev, ''To Be Preserved Forever'' ("Хранить вечно"), 1976
Глава двадцать шестая. Сухобезводная. Унжлаг
/ref> *, Belarusian literary critic, publisher, and cultural activist; served some of his time in Unzhlag, among several other camps. *, Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman,

Menshevik The Mensheviks (russian: меньшевики́, from меньшинство 'minority') were one of the three dominant factions in the Russian socialist movement, the others being the Bolsheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. The factions eme ...

Gallery

File:Остатки бараков .jpg, Barracks leftovers File:Колучкаулагеря.jpg, Barbed wire fense leftovers File:Руины у биржы.jpg, ''"Birzha"'' site leftovers File:Урочищедепоунжлаг.jpg, Depot model, Unzhlag museum

References

{{reflist Camps of the Gulag