Dubravlag
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The Dubravny Camp, Special Camp No.3 (Дубравный лагерь, Особый лагерь № 3), commonly known as the Dubravlag (Russian: Дубравлаг), was a Gulag labor camp of the Soviet Union located in Yavas, Mordovia from 1948 to 2005.
The Dubravlag was founded as one of several
penitentiary system after the Gulag system was dissolved in 1960.[2][1] The Dubravlag was operated by Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 until it was converted into a prison of the Federal Penitentiary Service
in 2005.
History
The Dubravlag was established on 28 February 1948 as
Stalin era
.
In 1954, after the death of
penitentiary system. By 1961, the Mordovia camps including the Dubravlag became the sole destination of those convicted of political crimes in the Soviet Union, and continued to function as a penal labor camp during the Khrushchev Thaw. However, the rise of Leonid Brezhnev in 1964 led to an increase in political repression in the Soviet Union and a resurgence in the number of political prisoners. Brezhnev's rule began with the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial, where the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were convicted of "Anti-Soviet agitation" in a show trial for their writings. In 1966, Sinyavsky and Daniel were both imprisoned at the Dubravlag until their early release in 1971 by Yuri Andropov, the Chairman of the KGB
at the time.
After the
Republic of Mordovia branch of the Federal Penitentiary Service
.
Notable inmates
English language articles
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- Metropolitan Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate
- Yuli Daniel, Russian writer and dissident, defendant at the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial
- Yuri Galanskov, Russian poet, historian, human rights activist, and dissident, defendant at the Trial of the Four
- ethnographer
- Ivan Gel, Ukrainian politician and dissident
- Alexander Ginzburg, Russian writer and dissident, defendant at the Trial of the Four
- Olga Ivinskaya, friend and lover of Boris Pasternak
- Halyna Kuzmenko, Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary, wife of Nestor Makhno
- Vladimir Osipov, Russian dissident and writer of samizdat
- Lagle Parek, Estonian stateswoman
- ISBN 0-679-72447-8)
- Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian writer and dissident, defendant at the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial
- Leonid Solovyov, writer and playwright, wrote The Enchanted Prince, the second of his two novels about Nasreddin, at Dubravlag
- Tatyana Velikanova, Soviet mathematician and dissident
- Stanislovas Žvirgždas, imprisoned while being a student; later became a Lithuanian photographer and historian of photography
Russian language articles
- Cossackmovements.
- ru:Валентин Зэка (Zeka Balentin), Russian poet and dissident
- ru:Гидони, Александр Григорьевич (Aleksandr Grigorevich Gidoni), Russian dissident
- ru:Грицяк, Евгений Степанович
- ru:Кузнецов, Владимир Петрович (лингвист) (Vladimir Petrovich Kuznetsov), Russian researcher, journalist, and dissident
- ru:Кривошеин, Игорь Александрович (Igor Aleksandrovich Krivoshein), Russian French Resistance fighter and Soviet patriot, son of Alexander Krivoshein
- ru:Найденович, Адель Петровна (Adel Petrovna Naydenovich), Russian dissident and wife of Vladimir Osipov
- Zionistmovement in the Soviet Union
- State Duma of Russiafrom 1993 to 1995.
- lexicographer
- ru:Романов, Александр Иванович (Aleksandr Ivanovich Romanov), Russian dissident and opponent of authoritarianism
- ru:Сорока, Михайло Михайлович (Mikhailo Mikhailovich Soroka), Ukrainian nationalist and dissident, died at the Dubravlag
- ru:Чешков, Марат Александрович (Marat Aleksandrovich Cheshkov), Russian historian and political scientist, husband of Engelsina Markizova
See also
References
- ^ a b ДУБРАВНЫЙ ЛАГЕРЬ, from the reference book Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР
- ^ Приказ МВД СССР № 00219 «Об организации особых лагерей МВД»