9. Vorkutlag (1938-1960) | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag

9. Vorkutlag (1938-1960)

Mining of coal and molybdenum; max. prisoners 63,000 (1950); HQ VORKUTA, Komi; still functioning January 1960.Тhe Memorial online database (2021) lists 6,130 prisoners who arrived at the Vorkutlag branch of Ukhtpechlag between 1936 and 1939 and 516 who died there. The region’s Book of Remembrance does not specify where they died and were buried.(see The Gulag in Northwest Russia).

Sites

Novy Bor ss (c) graves of forced settlers, 1930s

 

Kedrovy shor settlement* Zaozerny camp burial ground, 1930s-1940s

 

Adzvavom* Camp outpost burial ground, 1930s-1940s

 

Kochmes collective-farm. Prisoners burial ground, 1930s-1950s

 

Novy Bor settlement (c)* German burial ground, 1944-1946

 

Yur-Shor settlement [C]** Vorkutlag burial ground, 1944-1950s

 

VORKUTA Yuzhny settlement (c) Vorkutlag burial ground, 1940s-1950s

 

VORKUTA Mulda settlement (c)* Vorkutlag burial ground, 1940s-1950s

 

VORKUTA Zapadnoe settlement (c)* Prisoners burial ground, 1940s-1950s

 

VORKUTA Severny settlement (c)** Prisoners burial ground, 1940s-1950s

 

VORKUTA Rudnik settlement* Prisoners burial ground, 1950s 

9. Vorkutlag (1938-1960)