Concentration Camps Today
Soviet Russia (Eastern Siberia)
Death camps:
9
• Kavalerovo (Primorsk Region) (2 camps; open-pit uranium mine for military production; death by radiation poisoning)
• Kuzmikha (Irkutsk Region) (mica-cleaving without ventilation, by handicapped women with babies; death by silicosis/ pneumoconiosis from mica dust)
• Melnikovo (Irkutsk Region) (mica-cleaving without ventilation, by handicapped men; death by silicosis/ pneumoconiosis from mica dust)
• Oimyakon (Yakutsk Region) (underground uranium mine; death by radiation poisoning)
• Olga Bay (Primorsk Region) (uranium mine & enrichment facility for military production; death by radiation poisoning)
• Rakushka Bay (Primorsk Region) (nuclear submarine maintenance; death by radiation poisoning)
• Shamor Bay (Primorsk Region) (uranium mine & enrichment facility for military production; death by radiation poisoning)
• Tarya Bay (Kamchatka Region) (nuclear submarine maintenance & military base construction; death by radiation poisoning)
Forced-labor concentration camps:
190
• 1 for children (Ulan-Ude [Buryatia])
• 4 for women and their babies (Slyudyanka [Irkutsk], Vikhorevka [Irkutsk], Vershino [Primorsk], Shikotan [Kuril Islands])
• 2 for women and children (Ust-Kut [Irkutsk], Vydrino [Buryatia])
Torture-facility prisons:
27
Psychiatric prisons:
1
References:
Shifrin, A., The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union, Bantam Books, New York, 1982.