Ozerlag

Ozerlag (Озерлаг) was an MVD special camp (osoblag No. 7, osoby lager No. 7) in the Soviet GULAG labor camp system for political prisoners. It was established in 1948 near Tayshet and included a chain of camp sites (lagernye punkty) along the Baikal–Amur Mainline branches constructed by the inmates, up to Bratsk and later further to Ust-Kut.^[1]^[2]

Notable detainees

Leo Bauer (1912–1972), German political activist and journalist
Sonia Combe [fr]^{[citation needed]} (born 1949), French historian
Johannes Grant (1890–?), Estonian military commander
Jazep Hermanovich (1890–1978), Belarusian Greek Catholic priest and poet
Oleksander Hrekov (1875–1958), Ukrainian military commander
Stasys Ignatavičius [ru], Lithuanian engineer, member of anti-Soviet resistance
Mikhail Kalik (1927–2017), Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter
August Kolk [et] (1902–1997), Estonian military commander
Ján Košút [sk] (1926–2013), Slovak political prisoner
Victor Krasin (1929–2017), Russian human rights activist and economist
Yuriy Lytvyn (1934–1984), Ukrainian lyrical and prose writer, journalist and human rights activist
Hugo Pärtelpoeg (1899–1951), Estonian lawyer and politician
Algirdas Petrusevičius (born 1937), Lithuanian anti-Soviet dissident
Viktoras Petkus (1928–2012), Lithuanian political activist
Hugo Raudsepp (1883–1952), Estonian playwright and politician
Lidia Ruslanova^[1] (1900–1973), Russian folk singer
Iryna Senyk (1926–2009), Ukrainian poet and nurse
Dmitry Shebedev [ru] (1911–1955), Soviet draughts player
Adam Stankievič (1882–1949), Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer
Manfred Stern (1896–1954), Soviet spy
Andrei Tsikota (189–1952),^[3] Belarusian Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic priest
Karl Tuvike [et] (1892–1960), Estonian Lutheran clergyman
Maya Ulanovskaya (1932–2020), American-born Russian-Israeli writer and translator
Nina Virchenko (born 1930), Ukrainian mathematician, academic and author
Hava Volovich (1916–2000), Ukrainian writer, actress, puppet theater director
Sergey Voytsekhovsky (1883–1951), Imperial Russian, White movement and Czechoslovak military commander
Ivan Ziatyk (1899–1952), Ukrainian Catholic priest

References

^ ^a ^b "Подземная кухня Озерлага", baikalpress.ru, no. 46 November 19, 2004
^ ОЗЕРНЫЙ ЛАГЕРЬ (Озерный ИТЛ, Озерлаг, Особый лагерь № 7, Особлаг № 7), From: Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР, compiled by М.Б.Смирнов, Moscow, "Звенья", 1998
^ "Marians of the Immaculate Conception: Great Figures". Archived from the original on 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2014-07-23.