Belbaltlag

Belbaltlag was organized on November 16, 1931 on the basis of the Solovetsky ITL of the OGPU .

The camp administration center since its inception was located at the station. Bear Mountain ( Medvezhyegorsk ). Since July 2, 1933, by order of the OGPU, he was transferred to s. The twins , however, documentary evidence that the relocation was actually carried out was not found. Not later than September 7, 1935 he was again returned to the city of Medvezhyegorsk.

Subordinated from November 16, 1931 to the GULAG of the OGPU , from March 9, 1939 to the Forestry Administration of the Gulag, and from February 26, 1941 to the Administration of the NKVD Forestry Camps.

Closed on September 18, 1941 due to the proximity to the war zone by Order of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 08955 of September 11, 1941 on the termination of logging and logging by the White Sea-Baltic Combine. The order said: "immediately cease work in all divisions of the LBC, with the exception of the Pudozh branch." The Pudozh branch was separated from Belbaltlag by the NKVD order of September 18, 1941 and was directly subordinated to the Office of the Forestry Camps of the NKVD of the USSR). All the property and prisoners of Belbaltlag were transferred to the ITL at Oboronstroi, which was created on its basis, which lasted only a month and was closed on October 15, 1941. Until April 7, 1943, there was a department for the conservation and management of the conservation of the former Belomor- Baltic canal.

As part of the program "colonization of the region" 21 labor settlements of the White Sea-Baltic Combine (BBK) were created. As of July 8, 1938, 28 083 settlers lived in them, of which 15 525 people were employed at the LBC.

When organizing the BBK, the OGPU received "a monopoly on the exploitation of the canal ( Povenets - Soroka ) and the natural wealth of the regions adjacent to it." But later, logging became the main branch of LBC operations. By Decree of the Council of People 's Commissars of the USSR No. 1429–223 of 07/10/1935, the plant assigned a forest territory of 2 million 800 thousand hectares, later the Pudozhsky forest was added to it. In the spring of 1939, the White Sea-Baltic Canal was transferred to the People’s Commissar of the USSR (the acceptance certificate was approved on July 10, 1939). Decree of the Council of People 's Commissars No. 4467-325s of September 15, 1939 confiscated the "monopoly right" of the exploitation of the canal and adjacent areas from the White Sea-Baltic Combine and left logging in the previously allotted areas to it.

On October 21, 1939, the construction of the Segezha plant and on March 19, 1941, the construction of the Kondopoga alcohol plant were transferred to the Segezha ITL . On January 14, 1940, the construction of the Monchegorsk Combine (aka Severonickel Combine) was transferred to Mongergorsk ITL . On April 30, 1941, the construction of the Soroksky ( Belomorsky ) port was transferred to Matkozhlag .

The maximum number of prisoners is given for December 1932 - 107 thousand 900 people, of which 92 000 prisoners were employed in the construction of the canal, 15 900 - in logging. The average annual number of prisoners is given below without indicating the month and date:

• 1931 - 64,100;
• 1932 - 99 095, but 12.1932 - 107 900;
• 1933 - 84,504;
• 1934 - 62,211, but as of 01/01/1934 - 70,373;
• 1935 - 78,248, but as of 01/01/1935 - 66,418;
• 1936 - 57 969, but as of 01.01.1936 - 90 290;
• 01/01/1937 - 58 965;
• 07/01/1938 - 77,278 (of which 3,946 women), but as of 10/01/1938 - 79,232 (of which 25,311 were convicted of "counter-revolutionary crimes", 19,304 as "socially dangerous (ESR) and socially harmful elements "(SVE);
• 01/01/1939 - 86 567;
• 01/01/1941 - 71,269;
• 06/15/1941 - 67 928;

• provision of works for the Construction Management of the White Sea-Baltic Waterway of the OGPU (construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal), from the moment of its foundation;
• logging and rafting in the Vygozersky basin, since its inception;
• maintenance of the works of the White Sea-Baltic OGPU-NKVD (BBK) plant. Resolution of the Council of People 's Commissars of the USSR of August 17, 1933 "On the White Sea-Baltic Combine". During the organization, the LBC was entrusted with the task of colonizing the region adjacent to the canal (in particular, by settling it with labor settlers), exploiting the canal, shipbuilding in order to create a fleet for the canal, exploring and operating mineral ores, and constructing hydroelectric stations; it was planned to study the problems of constructing a second line locks on the White Sea-Baltic Canal for its deepening and expansion, as well as the construction of the Kandalaksha-Murmansk canal.

The LBC works consisted of:

Heads of Belbaltlag

• Senkevich E.I. , from 11.16.1931 to 01.16.1932;
• Alexandrov P.F., from January 16, 1932 (temporarily fulfilling the position), from March 28, 1932 - no earlier than January 15, 1933 (head);
• Firin S.G. (mentioned in 1933);
• Assumption D.V. , from 07/02/1933 to 10/07/1936;
• Almazov (Almazyan) Z. A. , from 10/07/1936 to 07/13/1937 (in combination with the positions of the head of the BBC and the assistant to the chief of the GULAG )
• Chuntonov M.M. , Art. State Security Lieutenant (GB), from 07/13/1937 to 08/28/1937 (temporarily performing position);
• Timofeev M.M. , Art. GB Major, from 08/28/1937 to 03/01/1941, (09/08/1941 appointed head of the Department of Defense of the NKVD in the Karelian-Finnish SSR)
• Sergeev I.T. , Major of GB, from 01/01/1941 to 09/18/1941;

Heads of the White Sea-Baltic Waterway Construction Department of the OGPU

• Kogan L.I. , chief, from November 16, 1931 to August 17, 1933 (from October 31, 1932, the head of construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal was concurrently appointed);
• Rapoport J.D. , Deputy Chief, from November 16, 1931 to August 17, 1933
• Senkevich E.I. , Assistant to the Chief and Head of Belbaltlag (see above), from November 16, 1931 to August 17, 1933
• Frenkel N.A. , head of work, from November 16, 1931 to August 17, 1933

Heads of the White Sea-Baltic Combine (BBK) OGPU-NKVD

• Rapoport J.D. , from August 23, 1933 to September 16, 1935;
• Almazov-Almazyan Z.A., from December 4, 1935 to July 13, 1937.

• White Sea-Baltic Canal named after Stalin (book)

• "The system of forced labor camps in the USSR." Compiled by M. B. Smirnov M .: Links , 1998.
• Materials on the situation of the archive of the LBC NKVD in 1942. National Archives of the Republic of Karelia. F. P-865. Op. 32. D. 31. L. 180—181, 397—398
• Badge “To the best drummer of BBK OGPU”