MONCHEGORLAG AND UST'VYM'LAG LABOR CAMPS/THE 'ROAD OF SOCIALISM' KOLKHOZ

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFTTANTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REOORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Monchegor lag and Ust vy nit lag Labor Camps/
the L'Road of Socia.lismn Kolkhoz
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTIN4 THE NATIONAL DIFINSI
OF THE UNITED SSSSSSS WITHIN THE MEANINSOF TITLE 111, SECTIONS 753
AND 7,4, OF THE U.S. CODE, AO AMENDED. ITS SSSSSS ISSION OR RAVE.
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR imicgiri SY AN UNAUTHOWIEED PERSON II
PROHIBITS? MY LAW. THE RRRRRR UCTION OP THIS FORM II PRONIRITED.
REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR. Z5-* Aug 1954
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The Monohegorlag prison camp was located at Olentya Station
68-09 N 33-35 EG This was approximately midway between
Monchegorsk 67-54 N - 32-58 E and Murmansk* The main purposv
of the camp was to provide labor for the nickel mines*
2. The camp was very over,owdede
there were over 15,000 prisoners* Approximately 5(:) were RussiaLs
and the remainder Ukrainians Be lorus s ians Poles,Jews, Finns
Latvians Lithuanians, Georgians, Tadzhiks, Azerbaijani
Turkmen, Kazakhs? and otherse,
3. Monchegorlag consisted of 20 buildings, See sketch, Enclosure (A17
all of wooden construction. All of the buildings had electricity
(from Monchegorsk) but no running water. The water was brought
into the buildings in barrels from a special well, controlled
and guarded by the camp authorities*
4e, The nickel mines in the Monche Mountains jic - Malaya Sopcha, SW of Monchegorskf
were approximately five to six kilometers from camp. The prisoners walked this
distance daily. The shafts of the mine were very primitive and. accidents oc-
curred daily. The roads in the vicinity were very poor - a mixture of sandccal
clay.
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the mines? nicKel ore was brought to the platform in wagonettes.
These were pushed by six men over a narrow-gauge track0
loaded the nickel ore unto regular railroad cars 0 Many railroad
cars of ore were then transported daily to Monchegorsk to the
ItSevero Nikel KoMbinat'l for further processing*
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NONCHEGORIAG PRISON LABOR CAMP
KARELD FINNISH SSR,
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GUARD HOUSE
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TIOSPITA;
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PRISON HEADQUARTERS AND
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STEAM BATHS
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
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PRISON FOR YEN
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WM:NV PRISON
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SMALL NEM? BARRACKS
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Ar3EM1 BARRACKS
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1ARGE !MN& BARRACKS
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ImmENsivoRK SiOP
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GUARD TOWERS
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FINANCE OFFICE
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6* The mines were supervised by two Soviet engineers, assisted by 10
engineers and technicians from among the prisoners. The head doctor
was a Soviet military man ging 21222Ea. He had as his orderlies
six to eight doctors from among the prisoners.
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prison camp, Ust,Vymitag? which
was located in northern itomi ASSR. This camp was similar to VOnchegorlag
except that it was smaller in size, and contained approximately 6000 men.
Forty per cent of the prisoners were Russian, 30% Chinese and Japanese,
and the remainder Ukrainians, Belorussians, Poles, Jews, and Germans.
This camp was set up for logging purposee. The principle trees felled
were spruce, birch, and alder. There were no power tools. The trees
were cleaned of branches and then cut into logs according to specifi-
cations set by the mbrigadier"3 a foreman appointed by the camp directors
The logs were loaded on trucks by hand with the help of chains and
poles. The road from the camp to the woods MAS in bad condition. The
ground was marshy, and had to be paved with logs before trucks and
horse-drawn wagons could use it. Hundreds of thousands of logs lay
rotting in the woods because they could not be transported out*
pig feed called RSilos. This was made from birch
leaves and small branches. The logs that were removed, were taken to
a railroad station west of camp.
the aDroga do Socializme (Road to Socialism) Kolkhoz,
10. The kolkhoz Was located in the outskirts of the village;. Pokrovka
had approximately 5000 inhabitants. The kelknoz had approximately
1200 active member who tilled over 1500 hectares of goods drained
soil. The principal crops were wheat, eats, barley, ryes millets and
potatoes. All agricultural machinery, plows, reapers, threshers etc,
were obtained from the MTS. The NTS also provided smal: (STZ)
and large OATZ) tractors. After using the machinery during the
season, the ki-LKUOZ returned the equipment to the NTS. There was
always trained personnel at the statior to repair the equipment
for the following season.
11. A large church at the edge of the village was converted into a grain
elevatcir. Then the elevator was full, excess grain was piled on the
ground. the villaze chairman.
was Ivan Pavlovich Ez.a.2 and the kolkhoz chairman was ifng Storozhev.
12. There were very few buildings at the kolkhoz. The only wooden building
was the kolkhoz office. All others were of clay and straw. Tnara
were also the customary, eattle? horse, and sheep barns and pig sties.
Pokrovka had a high school (Desyatiletka) and a Agrozoovet Technikum
(Agronomy, Zootechnique? Veterinary Medicine School).
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