Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei

GPTKB entity

Statements (55)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:government_agency
Soviet organization
gptkbp:abbreviation concentration camp
gptkbp:country gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:dissolved 1960
gptkbp:established 1930
gptkbp:function administration of forced labor camps
gptkbp:headquarters_location gptkb:Moscow
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei
gptkbp:languageOfName gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:nameMeaning gptkb:Main_Camp_Administration
gptkbp:notable_for gptkb:Kengir_uprising
gptkb:Norilsk_uprising
gptkb:political_repression
gptkb:Vorkuta_uprising
forced labor
human rights abuses
suppression of dissent
mass incarceration
mass graves
economic exploitation
systematic torture
use of informants
deaths from starvation, disease, and execution
deportation of ethnic minorities
prisoner uprisings
secret police collaboration
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:Vorkuta
gptkb:Norilsk
gptkb:Kolyma
gptkbp:notableLeader gptkb:Ivan_Serov
gptkb:Matvei_Berman
gptkb:Naftaly_Frenkel
gptkbp:notableProject gptkb:White_Sea–Baltic_Canal
gptkb:Baikal-Amur_Mainline
gptkb:Komsomolsk-on-Amur
gptkb:Norilsk_mining_complex
gptkb:Moscow-Volga_Canal
gptkbp:notableSurvivor gptkb:Varlam_Shalamov
gptkb:Lev_Razgon
gptkb:Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:The_Gulag_Archipelago
gptkb:Into_the_Whirlwind
gptkb:Kolyma_Tales
gptkbp:number_of_prisoners millions
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:NKVD
gptkb:MVD
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:World_War_II
gptkb:Great_Purge
postwar repression
gptkbp:relatedTo political prisoners
Soviet penal system
forced labor projects
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:concentration_camp
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5