The Inta Corrective Labor Camp (Intalag) (russian: Инти́нский исправи́тельно-трудово́й ла́герь, Инталаг, also abbreviated as Intinlag, Intlag, and Intastroy) was a forced labor camp 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 ...

, which existed between 1941 and 1948 near the town of

Inta Inta (russian: Инта́, kv, Инта) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. Population: History Inta was founded circa 1940 as a settlement to support a geological expedition to explore coal deposits and projecting of mines. The city's n ...

in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Prisoners at the camp were mainly engaged in the mining of local coal deposits.

History

Intalag was established on 17 November 1941 by being separated from

Vorkutlag The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp (), commonly known as the Vorkuta Gulag or Vorkutlag (Воркутлаг), was a major GULAG labor camp of the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta from 1932 to 1962. The Vorkuta Gulag was one of the largest camps in ...

. Despite its name, the camp was not actually located at Inta until 1942, being initially located at

Vorkuta Vorkuta (russian: Воркута́; kv, Вӧркута, ''Vörkuta''; Nenets for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner") is a coal-mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle in the Pechora coal basin ...

. The first camp commander was Captain Mikhail Savich Zdunis, who led it until 17 July 1942, and it was subordinated to the General Directorate of Railway Construction Camps (GULZHDS). The camp's prisoners were tasked with mining the Inta coal deposit and building and operating (from 11 September 1942) the Inta Central Electric System. On 27 July, Senior Lieutenant V.P. Sokolov took command of the camp, replacing Zdunis. Major G.B. Orlovsky became the camp commander on 26 March 1943. The camp was transferred to the General Directorate of Mining and Metallurgy Camps (GULGMP) on 5 October. Colonel M.I. Khaleyev became camp commander on 16 September 1944, and would command the camp for the rest of its existence. The Shchugorugol camp was split off from Intalag on 15 September 1945, but reabsorbed at the end of 1946. At the beginning of 1947, the number of inmates in the camp reached 20,585, its highest size. On 30 October 1948, the camp was closed down and reorganized into Minlag, 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 prisoners.

Notable inmates

* Dmitry Dudko, Orthodox priest and former dissident *

Aleksei Kapler Aleksei (born Lazar) Yakovlevich Kapler (also Alexei, russian: link=no, Алексей (born Лазарь) Яковлевич Каплер; 28 September 1903 – 11 September 1979) was a prominent Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and writer. ...

, film director and lover of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughterBiography of Aleksei Kapler
on kino-teatr.ru * Maxim Stepanov,

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

officer (died at Intalag in 1945) *

Jaan Kross Jaan Kross (19 February 1920 – 27 December 2007) was an Estonian writer. He won the 1995 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Early life Born in Tallinn, Estonia, son of a skilled metal-worker, Jaan Kross studied at Jakob Westholm Gymnasium ...

, Estonian writer, served a sentence in Intalag from 1947-1950, was later sent to Krasnoyarsk krai.

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External links

Intalag
at Russian NGO Memorial's Virtual Museum of the Gulag {{Coord missing, Russia Camps of the Gulag 1941 establishments in the Soviet Union 1948 disestablishments in the Soviet Union