Main Department of Camps (GULAG)

GPTKB entity

Statements (97)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:government_agency
gptkb:prison
gptkbp:abbreviation gptkb:GULAG
gptkbp:archaeologicalSite hundreds
gptkbp:country gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:dissolved 1960
gptkbp:documentedIn gptkb:The_Gulag_Archipelago
gptkb:Kolyma_Tales
gptkbp:established 1930
gptkbp:function administration of forced labor camps
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Main Department of Camps (GULAG)
gptkbp:influenced global understanding of totalitarianism
gptkbp:influencedBy Soviet penal policy
gptkbp:language gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:location gptkb:Moscow
gptkbp:nativeName gptkb:Главное_управление_лагерей
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:Solovki
gptkb:Irkutsk
gptkb:Kazakhstan
gptkb:Khabarovsk
gptkb:Khabarovsk_Krai
gptkb:Sakhalin
gptkb:Belomorkanal
gptkb:Buryatia
gptkb:Kemerovo_Oblast
gptkb:Omsk_Oblast
gptkb:Vorkuta
gptkb:Ukhta
gptkb:Tomsk
gptkb:Kamchatka
gptkb:Transbaikal
gptkb:Amur
gptkb:Arctic_Circle
gptkb:Chukotka
gptkb:Karaganda
gptkb:Krasnoyarsk_Krai
gptkb:Novosibirsk
gptkb:Primorsky_Krai
gptkb:Sakha_Republic
gptkb:Siberia
gptkb:White_Sea–Baltic_Canal
gptkb:Yakutsk
gptkb:Chelyabinsk
gptkb:Krasnoyarsk
gptkb:Omsk
gptkb:Chelyabinsk_Oblast
gptkb:Irkutsk_Oblast
gptkb:Kemerovo
gptkb:Norilsk
gptkb:Far_East
gptkb:Amur_Oblast
gptkb:Magadan_Oblast
gptkb:Novosibirsk_Oblast
gptkb:Tomsk_Oblast
gptkb:Yakutia
gptkb:Norillag
gptkb:Buryat-Mongol_ASSR
gptkb:Kolyma
gptkb:Altai
gptkb:Perm-36
gptkb:Sevvostlag
gptkb:Dneprostroi
gptkb:Dubravlag
gptkb:Karlag
gptkb:Mordovian_camps
gptkb:Potma
gptkb:Solovetsky_camp
gptkb:Steplag
gptkb:Svirlag
gptkb:Usollag
gptkb:Vorkutlag
gptkb:Vyatlag
gptkb:Yezhovlag
Chita
Magadan
Perm
Bamlag
Intalag
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Stalinist_purges
gptkb:political_repression
gptkb:Great_Terror
forced labor
human rights abuses
dissident
mass incarceration
gptkbp:notableInmate gptkb:Varlam_Shalamov
gptkb:Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
gptkb:Natan_Sharansky
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:NKVD
gptkb:MVD
gptkbp:populationPeak over 2 million
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:World_War_II
gptkb:Great_Purge
gptkb:Soviet_famine_of_1932–33
gptkbp:successor Soviet corrective labor colonies
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Main_Department_XXVII
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6