List of Gulag camps

This enormous, but far from complete list enumerates sites of Soviet forced labor camps ("corrective labor camps"). Most of them served mining, construction, and timber works. Even this imcomplete list can give a fair idea of the scale of forced labor in the USSR.

Initially it was created from the list of labor camps that detained citizens of Poland and Poles of other citizenship, compiled by the government of Poland for regulation of compensations for the former detainees and presented in a decree of the Council of Ministers (http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/du/2001/1154.htm) of Poland.

Those camps and works were not designed especially for Poles. Citizens of the USSR and people of other nationalities were also detained there.

The particular groups that were imprisoned there:

Any person convicted to a term of imprisonment of more than 3 years (all those convicted to less than 3 years were to be sent to "corrective labor colonies"
Soviet dissidents. Initially these were dubbed "class enemies", White Army combatants, members of opposition parties, nobility, etc.). Later, when the full victory of the Revolution was declared and there were supposedly no more "class enemies" left, a more flexible term of the enemy of the people was introduced, as well as an infamous Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) that covered "counter-revolutionary activities".
Soviet combatants returned from captivity. As a rule they were held liable under Article 58, their obvious anti-Soviet offense being not dying in the defence of the Soviet Motherland.
Poles. These nationals populated Gulag camps in three major waves, see Polish minority in Soviet Union article.

Remark: POWs were generally emprisoned in special POW camps, which existed independently from the network of corrective labor camps, and were subordinated to an own administrative apparatus within the NKVD (since 1946: MVD). However, a certain number of POWs ended up in the regular camp system, though. Unlike Gulag camps, that were located primarily in remote areas, most of POW camps after the war were located in the European part of the Soviet Union, where the prisoners worked on restoration of the country's infrastructure destroyed during the war: roads, railways, plants, etc., a topic of a separate article, POW labour in the Soviet Union.

Acronyms

BAM Baikalo-Amurskaya Magistral, Baikal-Amur Mainline (railway)
BBK Belomorsko-Baltiyskiy Kanal, White Sea-Baltic Canal
ITL -- "Ispravitelno-trudovoi lager'", or "corrective labor camp".
LO -- "Lesoobyedinenie", Logging works complex
CW -- Construction Works
CS -- Construction Site
Dalstroy -- Far East CW directorate
Yeniseystroy -- Yenisey CW directorate
SMU -- "stroitelno-montazhnoe upravlenie", Administration of construction and installation works
NKVD
MVD
UVD
GUVD
PL -- to mark sites that also detained Polish nationals
TMFM -- Traitor of Motherland Family Member (Russian: ЧСИР: член семьи изменника Родины), a category of repressed; some camps were specifically designated to this category.

GULAG

GULAG -- "Glavnoe Upravlenie Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerej", or The Chief Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps
BAMLag, Directorate of BAM camps
BBLag, Directorate of BBK camps
GULGMP -- Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerej (GUL) Gornopererabatyvayushchey i Metallurgicheckoy Promyshlennosti, Chief Directorate of Camps in Mining and Metallurgical Industry
GULLP -- GUL Lesnoj i Lesopererabatyvayushchey Promyshlennosti, Chief Directorate of Forestry and Wood Processing Industry
GULTP -- GUL Tyazholoy Promyshlennosti, Chief Directorate of Camps in Heavy Industry
GULZhDS -- "GUL Zheleznodorozhnogo stroitelstva", Chief Directorate of Railway CW
GUSHOSDOR,GULShosDor. GULShDOR -- "GUL Shosseynykh dorog", Chief Directorate of Camps in Highway CW
Sevvostlag(severo-vostochnye lagerya) -- Directorate of North-Eastern Camps
USLON, Upravlenie Severnykh Lagerey Osobogo Naznacheniya, Directorate of Northern Special-Significance Camps
- a.k.a. USKMITL - Upravlenie Solovetskogo and Karelo-Murmanskikh ITL, Directorate of Solovki and Karelia-Murmansk Camps
- SLON, Solovetski Lager Osobogo Naznachenia, Solovki Camp of Special Significance.

Construction works

Administration of corrective labor camps of "Apatit" industrial complex.
General Administration of Petroleum Refinery and Synthetic Fuels Construction of MVD
(PL) ITLs servicing CSs ## 6, 16, 18, 90, 100, 105, 106, 108, 141, 159, 211, 213, 247, 258, 263, 304, 313, 442, 447, 462, 496, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 513, 514, 514, 560, 565, 585, 600, 601, 620, 665, 770, 790, 791, 833, 855, 859, 865, 880, 915, 882, 883, 885, 994, 896, 907, 940 (PL)
(PL) ITLs servicing GUShosDor CSs ## 1 -- 8, 19 (PL)
(PL) ITLs servicing SMU ## 41 -- 53 (PL)
Krasnoyarsk CS and ITL of Yeniseystroy (PL)
ITL of Special CSs for Cellulose-Paper enterprises of Karelo-Finnish SSR (PL)
ITL of CS for Arkhangelsk Cellulose-Paper Complex (PL)
ITL od CSs for hydroelectric power plants on the Buya River (PL)
ITL od CSs for Vladimir hydroelectric power plant (PL)
ITL for CSs ##1, 2, 3 of Bashkirian Petroleum Plants Special CW (Bashspecneftestroy) (PL)
ITL for CSs ##1, 2, 3 of Tatarstan Petroleum Plants Special CW (Tatspecneftestroy) (PL)
ITL for CS of the Kazan petroleum refinery
ITL for CSs of hydroelectric power plants on the upper Oka River (PL)
ITL for CSs of Transcaucasian metallurgical enterprises (PL)
ITL for CSs of Znamienitaya dam and sluice (PL)
ITL for CSs of Volga-Don canal (PL)
ITL for CSs of Krasnoyarsk-Yeniseysk railway (PL)
ITL for CSs of Karaganda basin open-cast coal mines (PL)
Taishet Construction Works

Not figured out yet

Alluvajsky CS and ITL (PL)
Jensky CS and ITL (PL)
Matkozensky CS and ITL (PL)
Yanstroy ITL of Dalstroy (PL)

184) ITL i Budowa Górnosamgorskiego Systemu Irygacyjnego,

194) ITL i Budowa Mstyjskich GES,((?)Mstizhi ({?} Mstizh, )

155) ITŁ Budowy Kombinatu nr 11,

156) ITŁ Budowy Kopalń Rudy Żelaza,

157) ITŁ Budowy Przedsiębiorstw Górniczo-Metalurgicznych,

158) ITŁ Budowy Przystani Południowej,

159) ITŁ Budowy Specjalnej,

139) ITŁ Budownictwa Przemysłowego i Mieszkaniowego,

161) ITŁ Budowy Usolskich Zakładów Sprzętu Górniczego,

164) ITŁ i 10 Budowa Polowa NKWD,

182) ITŁ i Budowa Borownickiej GES,

188) ITŁ i Budowa Kombinatu Aktowrackiego,

189) ITŁ i Budowa Kombinatu nr 7,

190) ITŁ i Budowa Kopalni Rudy,

191) ITŁ i Budowa Kopalni Węgla,

201) ITŁ i Budowa Rejonu Specjalnego,

133) ITŁ i Budowa nr 4 Baszspiecnieftiestroju,

134) ITŁ i Budowa Zakładu nr 8 NKW,

135) ITŁ i Ekspedycja Poszukująca Ropy Naftowej,

136) ITŁ "DS" Jenisejstroju,

137) ITŁ Biełomorstroju,

138) ITŁ Bierieloskiego Rejonowego Zarządu Poszukiwań Geologicznych Dalstroju,

162) ITŁ Dmitrowskich Zakładów Mechanicznych,

163) ITŁ Ekspedycji Geologiczno-Poszukiwawczej,

208) ITŁ Jańskiego Zarządu Górniczo-Przemysłowego,

209) ITŁ Kołymsko-Indygirskiej Żeglugi Rzecznej Dalstroju,

210) ITŁ Kombinatu nr 6,

211) ITŁ Kombinatu nr 9,

212) ITŁ Krasnojarskiego Zakładu Afinacji,

213) ITŁ nr 17 GUSZOSDOR-u,

214) ITŁ przy Budowie Karagandażyłstroju,

215) ITŁ przy Budowie Specjalnej 881,

216) ITŁ przy Oboronstroju,

217) ITŁ przy Uglickich Zakładach Konstrukcji Mostowych nr 4 GUSZOSDOR-u,

218) ITŁ przy Zarządzie Budowy Dyrekcji Kopalń Rudy nr 10,

219) ITŁ Rudbakalstroju,

232) ITŁ Transportu Samochodowego Dalstroju,

233) ITŁ Usolgidroles,

234) ITŁ Zarządu Dróg Bitych Dalstroju,

235) ITŁ Zarządu Gospodarstw Pomocniczych Dalstroju,

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Akhtuba ITL,
Akhunlag,
Akmolinsk camp of wives of traitors of the Motherland (АЛЖИР, Акмолинский лагерь жен изменников Родины), an example of a morose Gulag wordplay: Алжир is Algeria (in Siberia...)
Aktiubinsk ITL,
Aldan ITL of Dalstroy,
Aldan ITL,
Altay ITL,
Amgun ITL,
Amur ITL,
Amur railway ITL,
Lower Amur ITL
Angara ITL,
Angninsk ITL,
Arkhangelsk ITL,
Astrachan ITL,
Azov ITL,
Azov LO