Concentration Camps Today

(Soviet) Ukraine

Capital: Kiev
(9 prisons)

Death camps: 4
• Cholovka (underground uranium mine)
• Novaya Borovaya (uranium mine)
• Rakhov (open-pit uranium mine)
• Zheltye Vody (underground uranium mine)

(death by radiation poisoning in all 4)

Forced-labor concentration camps: 169
• 15 for children (Arabatskaya Strelka, Bakhmach, Chernigov, Drogobych, Kharkov, Kherson, Korosten, Kremenchug, Manevichi, Odessa [3], Petrovskoe, Rovenki, Sarny)
• 11 for women and their babies (Bakhmach, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Dzerzhinsk, Khmelnitsky, Kremenchug, Odessa [2], Ovruch, Raikovichi, Rovenki, Tulchin)
• 3 for women and children (Drogobych, Kharkov, Kherson)

Torture-facility prisons: 42
• 1 for children (Odessa)
• 1 for women (Uzhgorod)

Psychiatric prisons: 20

References:

Shifrin, A., The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union, Bantam Books, New York, 1982.