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 Taishet 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]
Notable detainees
- Jazep Hermanovich and Andrej Cikota,[2] Belarusian Catholic priests
- Hava Volovich
- Victor Krasin
- Sergei Wojciechowski
- Algirdas Petrusevičius
- Manfred Stern
- Ján Košút
- Sonia Combe
- Lidia Ruslanova[1]
- Hugo Raudsepp
References
- "Подземная кухня Озерлага", baikalpress.ru, no. 46 November 19, 2004
- "Marians of the Immaculate Conception: Great Figures". Archived from the original on 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
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