Ustvymlag
Ustvymlag was a Gulag labor camp in the Soviet Union, Komi ASSR, with the headquarters in the village of Ust-Vym, later moved to Vozhayol. The full name is Ust-Vym Corrective Labor Camp. It was created from a detachment of Ukhtpechlag on August 16, 1937. After the dismantling of the Gulag system it remained a corrective labor camp of the Soviet penal system at least until 1958.
The main industry of the camp was logging and related production. The maximal occupation of 24,245, registered in 1943.
In 1942, a labor detachment of Volga Germans "mobilized for labor" was housed in the camp. Since 1945, it also detained prisoners of war.
Notable inmates
- Lev Razgon, Soviet journalist and activist
- Boris Gusman, Soviet author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda
- , Soviet military commander and military scientist
- , Soviet functionary
- , Soviet diplomat
- Dāvids Beika, Soviet Latvian activist and intelligence officer
- , Soviet NKVD functionary
- , Russian criminal boss, "thief in law"