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Bogoslovlag, 1940-1953

Bogoslovlag was set up in 1940 to build the aluminium works in Karpinsk (until 1933 named Bogoslovsk) and serve the bauxite mines of the northern Urals. The camp’s prisoners and deported Soviet German labourers also worked in the coal mine at Volchansk. Except for the first year, when Its headquarters were at the Bauxite railstation, it was managed from Krasnoturinsk in the Sverdlovsk Region.

 

After Tagillag it was the second largest corrective labour camp in the Urals. Officially, its population ranged from 14,000 to 8,000, but to these must be added the “special contingent” of deported Soviet Germans, an additional annual total of 6,000-9,000 between 1941 and 1946. High mortality in 1941-1942 and again in 1942-1943 mean that of a total 49,899 prisoners who arrived at Bogoslovlag between 1941 and 1945, 22% (10,993) died; 18% (3,720) of the forced labourers died in that same period.

 

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https://enc.rusdeutsch.ru/articles/5652  Encyclopedia of Russian Germans (retrieved, 6 June 2020)

Bogoslovlag, 1940-1953