Set up in June 1931. Oil and coal surveying; max. prisoners 54,792 (1938); HQ Chibiu (UKHTA), Komi. Closed May 1938; partially replaced by 10. Ukhtizhemlag (see The Gulag in Northwest Russia).
Oil and coal surveying and extraction in the Ukhta-Pechora district; servicing the activities of the OGPU-NKVD’s Ukhta-Pechora trust; mining coal in Vorkuta and Inta, extracting oil, radium, natural gas and asphaltites (mine in Nyamod village); building of gas plant, construction of roads (among which the Chibiu-Krutaya Highway) and railroads (Chibiu–Ust-Vym—Kotlas, Vorkuta—Ust-Usa—Kozhva, and others), barge-building, forestry in the Troitsko-Pechora and Kozhvinsky forestry works, and the Ust-Vym forest, agriculture.
Source: The System of Corrective-Labour Camps in the USSR, the authoritative 1998 handbook (and later website).
The Komi Book of Remembrance names almost 55,000 sent to the camps, where over 10,000 died: most were convicted in 1936-1940, including 7,977 who subsequently died in captivity. Тhe database lists 19,343 individuals who were held in Ukhtpechlag, of whom 6,185 died in captivity. (Тhat list includes 10,094 sent to Vorkutlag, where 1,146 of them died.)
10. Ukhtizhemlag, set up in May 1938. Oil and coal surveying; max. prisoners 37,000 (1950); HQ UKHTA, Komi. Closed May 1955 (transferred to Pechorlag). The database lists 14,379 held in Ukhtizhemlag, of whom 4,223 died in captivity.
Sites on "Russia's Necropolis"
Adzvavom village* Prisoners burial ground (early 1930s)
Novy Bor ss (c) graves of forced settlers (1930s)
Adak (c)* camp brickworks burial ground (1930s-1940s)
Adzvavom* Camp outpost burial ground (1930s-1940s)
Staraya Abez. Prisoners burial ground (1932-1955)
Adak (c)* Disabled outpost cemetery (1930s-1940s)
Kedrovy shor settlement* Zaozerny camp burial ground (1930s-1940s)
Kochmes collective-farm. Prisoners burial ground (1930s-1950s)
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Ukhtizhemlag (1938-1955)
Ukhtarka River (c)* Ukhtizhemlag burial ground (1930s-1940s)
Mount Vetlosyan (c)* Ukhtizhemlag burial ground (late 1930s - 1950s)
Тhe Komi Republic Book of Remembrance lists 14,482 individuals who were held in Ukhtizhemlag and names 4,223 who died in captivity.
[JC, January 2025]