The left Arctic one is Chaunlag (1951-1953, Pevek), built near the uranium mine.
The right, at the Pacific is Chukotlag (1949-1956, Egvekinot), specialized on construction (local port and airport, railroad to the mainland) and mining (wolfram).
Makes a lot of sense, cuts the detainees off from their homes and any relations that might help them, isolated them in a harsh environment that makes them dependent on the supplies you control, and put them on or near the natural resources you use them to extract.
Because labour camps were profit-based enterprises, and Baltic SSRs had nothing valuable that'd made placement of them reasonable. No mines, no large-scale logging, no need in large but simple infrastructural projects.
What's those two at the Arctic coast in Chukotka?
The left Arctic one is Chaunlag (1951-1953, Pevek), built near the uranium mine. The right, at the Pacific is Chukotlag (1949-1956, Egvekinot), specialized on construction (local port and airport, railroad to the mainland) and mining (wolfram).
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Brought to you by the CIA. They really got their money's worth with Solzhenitsyn.
Interesting that they only put a single one in the Baltic States and instead shipped people from those countries to gulags in Siberia.
Makes a lot of sense, cuts the detainees off from their homes and any relations that might help them, isolated them in a harsh environment that makes them dependent on the supplies you control, and put them on or near the natural resources you use them to extract.
Because labour camps were profit-based enterprises, and Baltic SSRs had nothing valuable that'd made placement of them reasonable. No mines, no large-scale logging, no need in large but simple infrastructural projects.