Sevzheldorlag (Sevzheldorstroy) - Northern Railway Forced Labor Camp of the NKVD , which functioned from May 10, 1938 to July 24, 1950 . Subordinated to the NKVD General Directorate of Camps (until January 1940 ), the NKVD General Directorate of Railway Construction Camps (January 1940 - April 1947 ), then the Northern Directorate of Railway Construction Camps, from 1948 - again to the General Directorate of Railway Construction Camps of the NKVD.
After completion of the main work on the construction of the North-Pechora Railway, it was merged with Sevpechlag to form Pechorlag .
Sevzheldorlag sites were located on the territory of the Arkhangelsk region (at the Kotlas station) and the Komi ASSR (in the Knyazh-Pogost settlement of the Ust-Vymsky district and the Zheleznodorozhny settlement - now it is the town of Yemva ).
Nature of industrial activity:
- construction of the Kotlas- Vorkuta railway , from 1940 on the Kotlas- Kozhva section.
- construction of the North-Pechora Railway ,
- completion of work on the railway section Konosha - Kotlas,
- industrial and residential construction,
- lime production at the Syrochayevsky plant,
- brick production
- ancillary agricultural work,
- logging
The largest number of prisoners - 84 893 people (in January 1941 ), the smallest - 12 418 people (in January 1945 ).
Literature
- The system of labor camps in the USSR. 1923-1960. - M., 1998;
- “Mobilize into working columns ... I. Stalin”: Sat. documents. - M., 1998;
- German A. A. , Kurochkin A. N. The Germans of the USSR in the Labor Army. - M., 1999.