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).
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).
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)
[JC, January 2025]