Kolyma labor camps
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The Kolyma labor camps were a notorious network of Soviet Gulag camps in Russia’s Far East, infamous for extreme cold, brutal forced labor in gold mining, and exceptionally high mortality rates.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kolyma camps | 1 |
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gulag labor camp system
ⓘ
forced labor camp network ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Dalstroy
NERFINISHED
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Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (Dalstroy) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | subarctic climate ⓘ |
| closedAfter |
Stalin's death
ⓘ
de-Stalinization ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Kolyma Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| estimatedPrisonerDeaths |
possibly over 100,000
ⓘ
tens of thousands ⓘ |
| founded | early 1930s ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Stalinist era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
brutal forced labor
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extreme cold ⓘ gold mining ⓘ high mortality rate ⓘ political repression ⓘ tin mining ⓘ |
| laborConditions |
12–16 hour workdays
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harsh discipline ⓘ inadequate clothing ⓘ insufficient food rations ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Russian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kolyma region
NERFINISHED
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Magadan Oblast NERFINISHED ⓘ Northeast Siberia NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian Far East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainAdministrativeCenter | Magadan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kolyma River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSurvivor | Varlam Shalamov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NKVD
NERFINISHED
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Soviet secret police ⓘ |
| partOf | Gulag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakOperationPeriod |
1940s
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World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ postwar years ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
gold extraction
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infrastructure building ⓘ logging ⓘ road construction ⓘ |
| prisonerCategories |
criminal prisoners
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ethnic minorities ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ prisoners of war ⓘ |
| significantExpansion |
Great Terror
NERFINISHED
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late 1930s ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Gulag historiography
ⓘ
Soviet repression studies ⓘ |
| winterTemperature | often below −40 °C ⓘ |
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Kolyma camps