Usollag, full name: Usolye Corrective Labor Camp (russian: Усольлаг, Усольский исправительно-трудовой лагерь (Усольский ИТЛ) ) was a Gulag forced labor camp established on February 5, 1938 and functioned after the dissolution of Gulag, until 1960. It was headquartered in Solikamsk, now in Perm Krai, Russia, and it had numerous " lagpunkts" (individual camp locations) in the northern parts of the then

Molotov Oblast Until 1 December 2005, Perm Oblast (russian: Пе́рмская о́бласть) was a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District. According to the results of the referendum held in October 2004, Perm Oblast was ...

. Its main occupation was

logging Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars. Logging is the beginning of a supply chain ...

and associated industries.УСОЛЬСКИЙ ИТЛ(Усольлаг)
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based on the book ''GEDENKBUCH: Книга Памяти немцев-трудармейцев Усольлага НКВД/МВД СССР (1942-1947 гг.)'' Its reported peak occupancy was 37,000 inmates on January 1, 1942. Its name is related to old name Usolye Kamskoye of Solikamsk and is not to be confused with ИТЛ Усольгидролес (Usolgidroles ITL) sometimes referred to as Usolye Corrective Labor Camp as well, but it was headquartered at the town of

Usolye Usolye (russian: Усо́лье) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. The name is an archaic Russian term for a salt-producing locality. ;Urban localities *Usolye, Usolsky District, Perm Krai, a town in Usolsky District of Perm ...

. Its name meaning:''gidro-''=hydro- standing for + 'les' standing for "лесозаготовки", i.e., "logging", i.e. logging for

Stalingrad Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stal ...

hydropower plant construction works (now known as the Volga Hydroelectric Station). A significant number of the residents of Usollag were the

Labor army The notion of the Labor army (трудовая армия, трудармия) was introduced in Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War in 1920. Initially the term was applied to regiments of Red ...

"worker columns" formed from the mobilized Volga Germans. In 1941 the subcamp at the settlement of Surmog received a considerable number of inmates deported from the Baltic states incorporated into the Soviet Union. Usollag administered several dozens of subcamps, called '' lagpunkts'' ("camp points"). Most of them housed about 100 inmates each doing logging. The only penal settlements of Sim and Surmog survived, which were converted into corrective labor colonies. Other settlements with disappeared subcamps of Usollag include Сом, Талая, Усть-Талка, Цыбин Родник; Шомыш, Цветково, Ржавец, Талица, Красный Яр, Vilva, Мысья, Родники. In 2013 the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Usollag was celebrated by the veterans of Perm division of Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, including an official announcement and a festive concert.Konstantin Bakharev
"Празднование юбилея Усольского ИТЛ стало причиной противоречий"
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'', February 5, 2013

Notable inmates

Estonians

* August Ehrlich (1893-1942), Estonian politician * August Gustavson (1884-1942), Estonian politician * Nigul Kaliste (1894-1941), Estonian politician *

Aleksander Oinas Aleksander Ferdinand Oinas (28 December 1887 – 3 March 1942) was an Estonian politician; he was a long-serving member of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) and served three times as a government minister. was an Estonian politician; he was a l ...

(1887-1942), Estonian politician, M.P. *

Karl-Eduard Pajos Karl-Eduard Pajos (also Karl-Eduard Pajus; 2 July 1894 Rakvere Parish, Kreis Wierland – 23 May 1953 Ussolye prison camp, Perm Oblast) was an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Norther ...

(1894-1953), Estonian politician *

Johannes Perens Johannes Perens (26 September 1906 Kaavi, Torgu Parish (now Saaremaa Parish), Kreis Ösel – 25 December 1941 Ussolye prison camp, Perm Oblast) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the V Riigikogu V Riigikogu was the fifth legislature ...

(1906-1941), Estonian politician * Nikolai Reek (1890-1942), Estonian military commander *

Aleksander Rei Aleksander Rei (24 January 1900 Uuemõisa Parish, Saare County – 6 November 1943 Usollag, Perm Oblast) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the Estonian National Assembly Estonian National Assembly ( et, Rahvuskogu) was a bicameral na ...

(1900–1943), Estonian politician *

Jaan Soots Jaan Soots ( – 6 February 1942) was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence and politician. Jaan Soots was born in Küti farmstead, Linna village, Helme Parish, Viljandi County (now in Tõrva Parish, Valga Cou ...

(1880-1942), Estonian military commander and politician *

Järvo Tandre Järvo Tandre (also Rudolf Stockeby; 22 October 1899 Väinjärve Parish, Järva County – 30 August 1943 Usollag prison camp, Perm Oblast) was an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northe ...

(1899-19431), Estonian politician *

Artur Toom Artur Toom (born Artur Eduard Johannes Thom; 5 January 1884 – 29 March 1942) was an Estonian ornithologist and conservationist who worked on the island of Vilsandi which later became Vilsandi National Park. He was arrested following the Soviet oc ...

(1884-1942), Estonian ornithologist and conservationist * Artur Tupits (1892-1941), Estonian politician *

Richard Veermaa Richard Veermaa (born Richard Vreeman; 26 May 1901 Lasva Parish, Võru County – 19 February 1942 Ussolye prison camp, Perm Oblast, Russia) was an Estonian police chief and politician. He was a member of III, IV and V Riigikogu. Veermaa was a ...

(1901-1942), Estonian politician *

Mathias Westerblom Mathias Westerblom (also Mathias Vesterblom; 15 September 1888 Noarootsi Parish (now Lääne-Nigula Parish), Wiek County – 5 February 1942 Ussolye prison camp, Perm Oblast) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of IV Riigikogu. He was a ...

(1888-1942), Estonian politician

Latvians

* (1884-1943), Lutheran pastor, Minister of Education of the Republic of Latvia * Emīlija Benjamiņa (1881-1941), Latvian businesswoman and publisher * Krišjānis Berķis (1884-1942), Latvian general, Minister of War * (1888-1942), Latvian social activist, man of letters, founder of the first Latvian news agency LETA * Alfrēds Birznieks (1889-1942), Latvian politician and lawyer * (1883-1941), Latvian general and state official * (1888-1942), Latvian judge, member of the Supreme Court ("Senate") of Latvia * (1878-1942) Latvian civil engineer and statesman * (1875-1941) Latvian teacher and businessman *

Frīdrihs Vesmanis Frīdrihs Vesmanis (April 15, 1875 – December 7, 1941) was a Latvian lawyer and politician for the LSDWP and the first Speaker of the Saeima. Early life Vesmanis was born on April 15, 1875, in Rundāle Parish to Kārļa Vesmaņa and Elizab ...

(1875-1941), Latvian lawyer and politician * (1889-1941), Latvian aviatorAlfrēds Valeika
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Other

Rudolf Hamburger Rudolf Albert Hamburger (3 May 1903 – 1 December 1980) was a German Bauhaus-inspired architect. Many of his most important commissions were undertaken in Shanghai where he lived and worked between 1930 and 1936. Late in 1930, his wife Ursula ...

, German architect * Kuksha of Odessa (1875-1964), Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) saint, canonized in 1995 *

Lev Razgon Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon (russian: Лев Эммануи́лович Разго́н; 1 April 1908 – 8 September 1999) was a Soviet journalist, a prisoner of the Gulag from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1950 to 1955, a Russian writer and, latterly ...

(1908-1999), Soviet writer and human rights activist *

Heinrich Alexander Stoll Heinrich Alexander Stoll was the pen name used by the German writer Heinrich Joachim Friedrich Karl Hans Stoll (8 December 1910 - 4 March 1977). During the 1950s and 1960s he emerged in East Germany as a prolific author of adventure novels, histor ...

, German writer * Mikhail Tanich (1923-2008), Russian song lyrics writer * (1906-1996), German and Soviet architect

References

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