Sevvostlag (Russian: Северо-восточные исправительно-трудовые лагеря, Севвостлаг, СВИТЛ, North-Eastern Corrective Labor Camps) was a system of forced labor camps set up to satisfy the workforce requirements of the Dalstroy construction trust …

The Sevvostlag camp was the focal point for the development of Kolyma; it was run by Dalstroy, a state trust for the development of the Far East.

In the faraway northeast lands of Russia, there was a ‘Sevvostlag’ (“North-East”) Gulag branch. It consisted of several labor camps along the Kolyma riverbed, thus the unofficial name ‘Kolyma’....

Sevvostlag or SVITL [5] (severo-vostochnye lagerya): Directorate of North-Eastern Camps, until 1939 was an independent system of labor camps outside of the main administration of camps, GULAG. Continued from the Polish Dziennik Ustaw complete listing of NKVD camps with Poles. [2]

SEVVOSTLAG – provided labour for Dalstroi; max prisoners 190,000 (1939); HQ MAGADAN, Far Eastern Region. Closed 1949-1953. [11 sites.]

known as Sevvostlag, or North-eastern Camp Administration, as an official arm of the Gulag providing the labor requirements of Darstroi. In terms of institutional oversight, a parallel Sevvostlag boss oversaw the growing number of labor camps in the area on behalf of the trust director. No duality of power ever arose in

Dalstroy developed a renowned theater troupe known as the Sevvostlag Club (Klub USVITL), which included many professional singers and dancers from among the local camps’ prisoners. [5] The troupe performed mainly for the higher-up officials in Magadan but also sent “cultural brigades” to entertain officials and prisoners throughout Kolyma.

Историческая справка и текущее состояние объектов лагерной инфраструктуры Севвостлага, населенных пунктов, производственных центров и историко-культурных объектов. Экспозиция «Колыма. Севвостлаг. 1932-1956 гг.» Тенькинский историко-краеведческий зал пос. Усть-Омчуг.

By April 1932, the North-Eastern Camp (Severno-Vostochnyi lager’ or Sevvostlag) of the GULAG (the NKVD Main Directorate of Labor Camps), which could accommodate 25,000 prisoners, was built, and from then on the majority of the work in Dalstroi, including gold mining, was conducted by …

Mar 27, 2023 · From the Sevvostlag labor camp in the Kolyma region of the Russian Far East, Dalstroy sourced hundreds of thousands of able-bodied prisoners to complete the construction of the highway. In this...