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The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp, commonly known as Vorkutlag (Воркутлаг), was a major Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1932 to 1962.
Perimeter fence and watchtower, Vorkuta Gulag.
The Vorkuta industrial concentration camp complex was located 160 km above the Arctic Circle. The city had a population of approximately 15,000 and about 50 camps with more than 50,000 inmates.
Meeting of the first train in Vorkuta. Fomin Yakov Yakovlevich personally photographed this event, being responsible for the construction of the railway, December 28, 1941.
Mikhail Mitrofanovich Maltsev and Fomin Yakov Yakovlevich.
Vorkuta
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Vorkuta is a coal-mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle in the Pechora coal basin at the river Vorkuta. In 2010, its population was 70,548, down from 84,917 in 2002.
Central Vorkuta
Mining College in Vorkuta
Vorkuta in 2012