DalLag
DalLag , established in 1952, was a special camp of the MWD for political prisoners . These special camps with a tightened regime were special facilities created by the Interior Ministry MWD (formerly NKVD) in the general Gulag system in the Soviet Union in the post-war period .
designation
DalLag, Russian Дальлаг, was originally called Ossoblag No. 11 , d. H. Special camp No. 11 (from особый лагерь № 11, особлаг № 11). The abbreviation DalLag is derived from Дальний лагерь, d. H. Distant camp ; Occasionally the camp is also referred to as the Ekibastus camp (Экибастузский лагерь). These designations for the originally numbered special bearings were only assigned later and mostly randomly, as a kind of code, mostly without any reference to reality.
History, activity
The DalLag camp was established on April 24, 1952 based on Decree No. 00219 of the Ministry of Interior MWD of February 21, 1948. It was located in the Pavlodar region in what was then the Kazakh SSR , and its administration was in Ekibastus . The camp was created by outsourcing camp department 6 of the PestschanLag special camp . The camp was dissolved on April 8, 1954 by being converted into a camp department of the PestschanLag special camp after the decision to integrate DalLag into the KamyshLag special camp was decided in June 1953 , but was withdrawn about a month later.
The prisoners were mainly employed in the open-cast coal mine in Ekibaktus and in the IrtyschUgleStroi combine of the Ministry of Coal Industry.
The following were alternately responsible for the camp:
- GULAG (Head Office of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies) of the MWD (April 1952 to March 1953)
- GTU (Head Office of Prisons) of the MWD (March 1953 to February 1954)
- GULAG of the MWD (February 1954 to April 1954)
Occupant Numbers
The number of prisoners was documented with the following figures:
| July 1, 1952 | 3,071 |
| December 1, 1952 | 2,787 |
| January 1, 1953 | 2,742 |
| January 1, 1954 | 2,388 |
Up to 5,000 prisoners were planned.
Remarks
- ↑ The term Ekibastus camp is also used for other camps located in the city of Ekibastus at that time, without any clear distinction being made between the individual camps.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Д. Шкапов: ДАЛЬНИЙ ЛАГЕРЬ . In: MB Smirnow (ed.): Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР (The system of corrective labor camps in the USSR 1923–1960). Zwenja, 1998. Online on the Мемориал portal (Memorial.ru) memo.ru / ... ; German version on the MEMORIAL Deutschland e. V .: Dmitri Schkapow: Fernes Lager , in: The system of corrective labor camps in the USSR 1923–1960 , edited by Michail Smirnow, online at: gulag.memorial.de / ...
- ↑ Приказ МВД СССР № 00219 “Об организации особых лагерей МВД” (Law No. 00219 on the Organization of Special Storage Centers of the MWD). Online at: alexanderyakovlev.org / ...
See also
Web links
- Outline map of the camps in the Kazakh SSR. In: Portal from Memorial / Germany. Retrieved December 17, 2016 (Marked on the map as “Distant Camp” between the cities of Pavlodar and Zelinograd in the northeast).