White Sea–Baltic Canal
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The White Sea–Baltic Canal, often abbreviated to White Sea Canal, is a man-made ship canal in Russia. Opening on 2 August 1933, it connects the White Sea, in the Arctic Ocean, with Lake Onega, which i
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Prisoners at work, 1932
The prisoners' labour at the Belomorkanal construction site
Chief of works Naftaly Frenkel (rightmost), head of GULAG Matvei Berman (center), chief of the southern part of the canal Afanasyev (second from left)
Genrikh Yagoda
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Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin,
White Sea–Baltic Canal
…workforce for the Canal was supplied by the Belbaltlag camp directorate (White Sea–Baltic Corrective Labor Camp Directorate, WSBC) of the OGPU GULAG. Genrikh Yagoda, Deputy Chairman of the OGPU and later Director of the NKVD P. F. Aleksandrov (П. Ф. Александров), acting chief of WSBC, January 16, 1932, full chief…
Yagoda in 1936
Yagoda on a police information card from 1912
Yagoda, Menzhinsky, Dzerzhinsky, 1920
Yagoda and his wife Ida Averbakh, deputy prosecutor of Moscow, 30 September 1922