Gryazovets Camp ( NKVD Camp No. 150 ) is a Soviet camp for holding Finnish and Polish prisoners of war , located near the Gryazovets station in the Vologda Region .
The camp was organized at the end of December 1939. It was located in the buildings of the Kornilyevo-Komelsky Monastery on the banks of the Nurma River (the former recreation house of Sovlesprom). He received first Finnish, then Polish prisoners of war; as of April 17, 1940 there were 600 Finnish prisoners of war; in the summer of 1940, Polish prisoners of war were transferred, remaining from the Kozelsky , Starobelsky and Ostashkovsky camps (former Polish military personnel and police), who were not shot in the spring of 1940 (as of July 23, 1940, 394 Polish prisoners were kept). By the beginning of World War II, there were over 1000 people. In October 1941, the camp was disbanded, re-organized in 1943 as an officer camp for prisoners of war. By 1945 there were more than 5,000 prisoners of war ( Germans , Romanians , Hungarians , Poles ). Disbanded in August 1948.
Literature
- Konasov V. B. , Sudakov V. V. Echo of the past war: From the history of the Vologda region. - Vologda, 1994 .-- S. 67-78;
- Galitsky V.P. Finnish POWs in the NKVD camps (1939-1953) / Ed. Yeshenko V.S. - M., 1997.