Solovki prison camp

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Solovki prison camp was one of the earliest and most infamous Soviet forced-labor camps, located on the Solovetsky Islands and often seen as a prototype for the wider Gulag system.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gulag camp
Soviet forced-labor camp
concentration camp
considered prototype of the Gulag
convertedFrom Orthodox monastery complex
country Soviet Union
endTime circa 1939
late 1930s
governedBy Soviet state security organs
hasLanguage Russian
hasPrisonerType clergy
former officials
intelligentsia
members of banned parties
peasants
hasReputation one of the most infamous Soviet camps
historicalPeriod Stalinist repression
early Soviet era
locatedIn Arkhangelsk Oblast
Solovetsky Islands
White Sea
memorializedAs symbol of early Gulag terror
notableFor experimentation with camp administration methods
extreme climatic conditions
harsh discipline
high mortality
role as model for later Gulag camps
occupiesFormer Solovetsky Monastery
operatedBy Cheka
GPU
OGPU
Soviet secret police
partOf Gulag system
Soviet penal system
precededBy Tsarist-era prison and exile system
startTime 1920s
circa 1923
subjectOf historical research on the Gulag
memoirs by former prisoners
usedFor forced labor
imprisonment of common criminals
imprisonment of political prisoners
imprisonment of religious prisoners
political repression
workType construction
infrastructure building
logging
port and canal work
road building

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Gulag system
notableCamp
Arkhangelsk Oblast ("Solovetsky Islands Gulag camp sites")
notableSite

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