Minlag


Minlag or Mineralny Camp Directorate was an MVD special camp for political prisoners within the Gulag system of the Soviet Union. It was established on February 28, 1948 based on the Inta labor camp, Komi ASSR. In 1954, after Stalin's death it was reorganized into an ordinary Mineralny Corrective Labor Camp.

Notable inmates

  • Jaan Kross, Estonian writer
  • Viktoras Petkus, Lithuanian political activist and Soviet dissident
  • , Ukrainian Insurgent Army fighter
  • , Lithuanian engineer, member of anti-Soviet resistance
  • , Slovak Catholic priest, founder of the Pontifical Russian College
  • :uk:Грицяк Євген Степанович
  • :ru:Гогитидзе, Герман Иосифович
  • :ru:Данилов, Виктор Петрович
  • :ru:Дунский, Юлий Теодорович
  • Aleksei Kapler, second sentence, after serving in Vorkutlag
  • :ru:Корак, Борис Яковлевич
  • :ru:Смеляков, Ярослав Васильевич
  • :ru:Фирсова, Софья Михайловна
  • :ru:Фрид, Валерий Семёнович