Dubravlag
Dubravlag or Dubravny Camp Directorate (Дубравлаг, also Дубравный лагерь, Особый лагерь № 3, Особлаг № 3, Дубравный ИТЛ) was part of the Soviet system of Gulag labor camps, as well as part of the post-Gulag Soviet penitentiary system.[1]
It was organized in 1948 as Gulag special camp No. 3 for political prisoners by merging Temlag (Temnikovsky ITL) and Temnikovsky child colony and headquartered at Yavas, Mordovian ASSR.[2] In 1954 it was reorganized into a regular corrective labor camp (ITL).[1]
Notable inmates
- Nina Gagen-Torn, poet, writer, historian and ethnographer
- Leonid Solovyov, writer and playwright. He wrote the second part of his dilogy about Hodja Nasreddin while serving time in Dubravlag
- Metropolitan Cornelius, the Metropolitan bishop of Tallinn and All Estonia, the head of the Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate
- Lagle Parek, Estonian stateswoman
- Irina Ratushinskaya, Soviet dissident, poet, writer, described her years in Dubravlag in her book Grey Is the Color of Hope (1989, Vintage. ISBN 0-679-72447-8)
- Yuli Daniel, Soviet dissident, writer
- Olga Ivinskaya, friend and lover of Boris Pasternak
- Alexander Ginzburg, Soviet dissident
- ru:Браун, Николай Николаевич
- ru:Валентин Зэка
- ru:Гидони, Александр Григорьевич
- ru:Кузьменко, Галина Андреевна, wife of Nestor Makhno
- ru:Кузнецов, Владимир Петрович
- ru:Кривошеин, Игорь Александрович
- ru:Найденович, Адель Петровна
- ru:Могилевер, Хаим Зеэв
- ru:Молоствов, Михаил Михайлович
- ru:Осипов, Владимир Николаевич (публицист)
- ru:Подольский, Барух
- ru:Романов, Александр Иванович
- ru:Сорока, Михайло Михайлович
- ru:Чешков, Марат Александрович
References
- ^ a b ДУБРАВНЫЙ ЛАГЕРЬ, from the reference book Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР
- ^ Приказ МВД СССР № 00219 «Об организации особых лагерей МВД»