2. SEVVOSTLAG, 1932-1953 | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

2. SEVVOSTLAG, 1932-1953

Provided labour for Dalstroi; max prisoners 190,000 (1939); HQ MAGADAN, Far Eastern Region. Closed 1949-1953. [19 sites.]

The Memorial database “Victims of Political Terror in the USSR” lists 1,883 individuals who served time in Sevvostlag. It names 349 who died in captivity and 20 who were shot there.

The boats will come for us: A list of rehabilitated individuals, executed in the Magadan Region (vol. 1, 1999) includes biographical entries for 7,546 who were shot. The Memorial online database (2021) includes all listed in the Magadan Region Book of Remembrance and names 6,607 of them who were shot during the Great Terror (1937-8).

2. SEVVOSTLAG, 1932-1953