ATTAC Report: Concentration Camps in Russia (Northern Region)

Concentration Camps Today

Soviet Russia (Northern Region)

Petersburg
(4 concentration camps, 14 prisons)

Death camps: 14

• Cape Medvezhyi (Novaya Zemlya, Arctic Ocean) (uranium mine & enrichment facility)

• Cherepovets (Vologda Region) (at least 2 camps; uranium mine [open-pit] & enrichment facility)

• Mirny (Arkhangelsk Region) (nuclear submarine maintenance)

• Omutninsk (Kirov Region) (4 camps; uranium mines & enrichment facilities)

• Severodvinsk (Arkhangelsk Region) (nuclear submarine maintenance)

• Totma (Vologda Region) (uranium mine [underground] & enrichment facility)

• Vaigach Island (Arctic Ocean) (uranium mine & enrichment facility)

• Verkhnekamsk (Kirov Region) (3 camps; uranium mines & enrichment facilities)

(death by radiation poisoning in all 14)

Forced-labor concentration camps: 280

• 4 for children (Kandalaksha [Murmansk], Kochmas [Komi], Petersburg, Vologda)

• 5 for women and their babies (Kirov, Kochmas [Komi], Volkhov [Leningrad], Vologda, Zuevka [Kirov])

• 2 for women and children (Arkhangelsk, Ulyanovka [Leningrad])

• 2 for women (Navolok [Arkhangelsk], Ulyanovka [Leningrad])

Torture-facility prisons: 28

• 1 for women (Petersburg)

Psychiatric prisons: 16

References:

Shifrin, A., The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union, Bantam Books, New York, 1982.