Vorkuta Gulag

The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp, Rechlag (Russian: Pекалаг River Camp) or The Vorkuta Corrective Special Labour Camp Number 6 (), commonly known as the Vorkuta Gulag (Воркута ГУЛАГ) or Vorkutlag (Воркутлаг), was a major GULAG labor camp in the Soviet Union located in Vorkuta, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1932 to 1962. The Vorkuta Gulag was one of the largest camps in the GULAG system, the camp housed 73,000 prisoners at its peak i…