Sevzheldorlag (also Sevzheldorstroy, Northern Railway ITL) (russian: Севжелдорлаг, Севжелдорстрой, Северный железнодорожный ИТЛ) was a penal
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 ...
system in the USSR. The full name was Северный железнодорожный исправительно-трудовой лагерь НКВД, Northern Railway Corrective Labor Camp of
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
...
. Established on May 10, 1938, on July 24, 1950 it was merged with
North Pechora ITL to make the
Pechora ITL. Top head count was 84, 893 (January 1941). The main operation was railroad construction.
Севжелдорлаг
at the Virtual Museum of GULAG The sites of the camp were within Komi ASSR
The Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Коми Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; kv, Коми Автономнӧй Сӧветскӧй Социалистическӧй ...
, East Siberia
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: at Kotlas
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railway station, Knyazhpogost settlement (including headquarters), and Zheleznodorozhny settlement (now the town of Yemva).
Administration
* :ru:Шемена, Семён Иванович, Camp chief (May 10, 1938 – 1940)
Notable inmates
* Hava Volovich
*Sergey Korolyov
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (russian: Сергей Павлович Королёв, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ kərɐˈlʲɵf, Ru-Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.ogg; ukr, Сергій Павлович Корольов, ...
(1940–1944)
* :ru:Шрейдер, Михаил Павлович (October–December 1940, transport
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to the camp, 1942 – released to leave for the front of the Great Patriotic War
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)
* Jalmari Virtanen, :ru:Виртанен, Ялмари Эрикович (1938 – April 2, 1939)
* Archbishop Varlaam ( :ru:Варлаам (Пикалов)) (1942, among several other camps)
* Matvey Amagayev ( :ru:Амагаев, Матвей Иннокентьевич) (1940 – August 18, 1944)
* :ru:Гавронский, Александр Осипович, film director; was director of the inmate theatre in Sevzheldorlag
* :ru:Евгенов, Николай Иванович (1888–1964), hydrographer and oceanologist (Knyazhpogost, June 1940–February 1941; meteorologist)
* :ru:Максимов, Сергей Сергеевич (1916–1967), writer (1936–1941)
* :ru:Бабареко, Адам Антонович (1899–1938), Belarusian writer (Knyazhpogost, May–November 1938)
References
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Camps of the Gulag