Main Department of Camps (GULAG)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/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