Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees
The Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees
GUPVI was established as a part of the NKVD under the name "Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees (UPVI) in September 1939, after the
The legal foundation for its creation was the
In many ways, the GUPVI system was similar to
One major difference with the GULAG system was the absence of convicted criminals in GUPVI camps. Another was that GUPVI camps provided a major source of recruitment of future
During the GUPVI's fourteen-year existence, it administered over 500 POW camps in the Soviet Union and abroad, housing over four million prisoners.[10]
Chiefs
- 1939-1943: Pyotr Soprunenko, major of state security[10]
- 1943-1945: I.A. Petrov, lieutenant general[10]
- 1945-1947: Mikhail Krivenko (Krivenko Mikhail Spiridonovich, 1904–1954)[10]
- 1947-1949: Taras Filippov, lieutenant general[10]
- 1949-1950: I.A. Petrov, lieutenant general[10] (deputy chief, until his discharge for health reasons on November 21, 1950)[11]
- 1950-1953: Amayak Kobulov, lieutenant general[10] (1950-1951: NKVD GUPVI, 1951-1953: MVD UPVI)
See also
- List of POW camps in the Soviet Union
- Katyn massacre
Notes
- ^ Numerous translations of the name of the department have appeared in English sources including "Chief Administration for POW and Internee Affairs",[1] "Main Directorate for POW and Internee Affairs",[2] "Main Administration for the Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees",[3] and "Main Administration of Prisoners of War and Interned Personnel".[4]
References
- ISBN 9780520956575.
- ISBN 9780817927837.
- ISBN 9789639241688.
- ISBN 978-0801461484.
- ^ "POW in the system of the forced labor in the USSR", Modest Kolerov, Otechestvennye Zapiski, no. 3, 2003
- ISBN 978-3-486-56119-7 (book review, English) (in German)
- Russian translation: 2002, ISBN 5-7281-0424-X
- Russian translation: 2002,
- ^ a b "Internment: A Form of Soviet Repression of Poles and Polish Citizens" Archived 2014-12-13 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- Arguments and Facts, no. 49, December 2004
- ^ a b Japanese POV in Krasnoyarsk Krai, by M. Spiridonov
- ^ ISBN 5-224-03722-0.
- ^ Petrov, Nikita. "18". GULAG.
Further reading
- Sharkov, Anatoli, GUPVI Archipelago: Prisoners of War and Internees on the Territory of Belarus: 1944--1951(in Russian) (2003), Minsk, Belarus, ISBN 985-463-094-3 (Online excerpt) (in Russian)
- ISBN 5-9233-0421-X(in Russian)
- Максим Загорулько, Сергей Сидоров, Елена Цунаева (eds.) Лагеря для военнопленных НКВД-МВД СССР (1939-1956), 2020, ISBN 5042405232[1]