Shosdorlag ( Correctional labor camp of the highway construction ) - a unit operating in the structure of the General Directorate of labor camps of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR ( GULAG NKVD of the USSR ).
Content
History
The Shosdorlag was organized in 1937 on the basis of the Road Construction and Highway Division separated from Dallag . Camp management was located in Khabarovsk . Initially, Shosdorlag was directly subordinate to the GULAG, in 1938 he was reassigned to the NKVD Main Highway Administration (GUSHOSDOR), and later to the Administration of corrective labor camps and colonies of the NKVD Administration in the Khabarovsk Territory.
The maximum one-time number of prisoners could reach more than 40,000 people.
The Shosdorlag was disbanded in 1940 .
Production
The prisoners' main production activities were road construction in the regions of the Far East.
Notes
- Also known as Ushosdorlag and Ushosstroylag.
- In the period from 1951 to 1953 in the system of correctional labor institutions of the USSR there was a correctional labor camp of the Dalstroy highway management , which had the same abbreviated names.
See also
Camps OGPU-NKVD-MVD