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).
Тhe Komi Republic Book of Remembrance lists 28,615 individuals who were held in Ukhtpechlag and names over six thousand who died in captivity. 17,000 were sent to the camp system during its last three years (1936-1938) when over 4,000 prisoners 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).
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]