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Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russian: Красноя́рский край, tr. Krasnoyarskiy kray, IPA: [kr%C9%99sn%C9%90%CB%88jarsk%CA%B2%C9%AAj ˈkraj]) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Siberia (after Novosibirsk and Omsk). Comprising half of the Siberian Federal District, Krasnoyarsk Krai is the largest krai i...
Vyatka Correctional Labor Camp (Vyatka ITL, VyatLag) is one of the largest correctional labor camps in the GULAG system, K-231, which existed from February 5, 1938 until the 1990s. Directly subordinated to the Main Directorate of Forestry Camps (GULLP) of the NKVD of the USSR, later the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. It was located in the Verkhnekamsk District of the Kirov Region (p...
Siberian Gulags/Soviet Repressions (1939-1946) - Poles deported to Siberian Gulags during World War II In the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, which took place in September 1939, the territory of Poland was divided in half between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The Soviets had ceased to recognise the Polish state at the start of the invasion. Both regimes were hostile ...
Please add this project to the profiles of exiled and imprisoned people in the Norillag labor camp at Norilsk. Also, please specify this project under photos and documents related to the subject. Norillag, Norilsk Corrective Labor Camp (Russian: Норильлаг, Норильский ИТЛ) was a gulag labor camp set by Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia and headquartered there. It existed from June 25, 1935, to...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the Geni profiles of those who survived the Soviet Labour Camps in Siberia. Also, please specify this project under documents and photos related to the same subject. Gulag (Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps”) was a system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that, from 1918 to 1...
Victims of the Siberian Labour Camps The purpose of this project is to collect all of the names of those who died in one of the Soviet Labour Camps in Siberia. Also, please specify this project under photos and documents related to the same subject. An estimated 1.6 to 1.76 million people died in the Soviet Gulag camps between 1930 and 1953. While official records attribute many of these dea...
Norilsk (Russian: Нори́льск) is a closed city (travel and residency are restricted by government authorities) in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk is 300 km north of the Arctic Circle and 2,400 km from the North Pole. It has a permanent population of 176,735 as of 2024 and up...
Estonians, who have stayed shorter or longer time in Norilsk or nearby or who have been prisoners at Norillag's camps. Estonians were among those deported to Norilsk, a city in the Russian Arctic. Many were prisoners who labored in the Norillag (Norilsk Corrective Labor Camp) during the Soviet era. Norilsk was a major Gulag camp, and Estonians, along with other nationalities like Latvians and...
Krasnoyarsk is the largest city and administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is situated along the Yenisey River and is the second-largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk, with a population of over 1.1 million. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the renowned Trans-Siberian Railway and is one of the largest producers of aluminum in the country. The city is known for its natur...
Igarka (Russian: Ига́рка) is a town in Turukhansky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located 163 kilometers (101 mi) north of the Arctic Circle. Igarka is a monotown established around a sawmill that processed timber logged in the basin of the Yenisei River for export. Up to 1956, it was largely inhabited by deportees and political prisoners. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 199...