Concentration Camps Today
Soviet Russia (Central Region)
Death camps:
1
• Sosnovka (Mordovia) (glass grinding without ventilation; death by silicosis from glass dust)
Forced-labor concentration camps:
181
• 7 for children (Alatyr [Chuvashia], Gorkii, Kazan [Tatarstan], Rybinsk [Yaroslavl], Smolensk, Votkinsk [2] [Udmurtia])
• 6 for women and their babies (Barashevo [Mordovia], Bugulma [Tatarstan], Gorkii, Kopychilitsy [Perm], Potma [Mordovia], Tver’)
• 1 for women and children (Dobrye Vody [Perm])
Torture-facility prisons:
50
• 1 for women and their babies (Ivanovo)
Psychiatric prisons:
8
References:
Shifrin, A., The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union, Bantam Books, New York, 1982.