Ukhtpechlag Explained

63.5667°N 95°WUkhtpechlag or UPITLag (ru|Ухтпечла́г (Ухти́нско-Печо́рский исправи́тельно-трудово́й ла́герь, УПИТЛа́г)) was a Gulag labor camp in Komi ASSR. It existed during June 6, 1931 – May 10, 1938. Its headquarters were in Chibyu, now Ukhta. Its main work was oil and coal mining in Ukhta-Pechora Basin, as well as construction works and logging.^[1]

In 1938, its subcamps were reorganized into Vorkutlag,, Sevzheldorlag, Ustvymlag (Устьвымлаг) ^[1] because of the sharp increase of convicts during the Great Terror.

Notable inmates

• Graal Arelsky (1889–1937), Russian poet of Ego-Futurism, sentenced by Article 58-10 for anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation
• (1894–1941), economist, professor
• George Andreytchine (1894–1950) Bulgarian, American, and Soviet political activist
• Graal Arelsky (1889–1937), poet-futurist
• Konstantin Avksentevsky (1890–1941), Soviet army commander
• (1896–1941) Komi writer and social activist, one of the founders of Komi (Zyryan) Autonomous Oblast. He suggested the creation of a concentration camp in Ukhta, an himself landed in it as a "creator of the counter-revolutionary nationalist organization". Executed on November 22, 1941.^[2]

• (1895–1944) Soviet graphic artist, convicted of "counter-revolutionary Trotskyite activities". palacet in Ukhtpechlag, later transferred to Ulsollag, where he died of tuberculosis.^[3]
• (1890–1943), Soviet anthropologist, archaeologist, ethnographer, paleoethnologist, and geologist. Convicted for 3 years as part of the "Russian National Party case" (Russian: процесс Российской Национальной партии), but released ahead of time.^[4]
• (1891–1938), Russian pilot, priest, aviation constructor. Convicted in 1935 for 5 years of camps and worked as an artist in Ukhtpechlag. In 1937 he was arrested again and sentenced to death for "counter-revolutionary agitation" (for religious propaganda)
• Olimpia Dobrovolska
• Johann Gockel-Ehrlich
• (1893–1981); arrested in 1929 in relation to the Academic Trial; worked in the camp as an economist-statistician, released in 1934
• (1892–1953) Soviet reologist and geophysicist
• (1891–1938), Soviet Bolshevik party functionary; convicted several times for opposition activities and eventually executed
• Kullervo Manner (1880–1939) Finnish and Soviet Communist, politician, and journalist
• Mikhail Nazvanov (1918–1964), Soviet stage and film actor
• Anton Prykhodko
• Sergei Sedov (1908–1937), Soviet engineer and scientist, the son of Leon Trotsky
• Ostap Vyshnya, accused of belonging to the "Ukrainian Military Organization" (Української військової організації (УВО)) and sentenced to execution by firearms, replaced by 10 years of labor camps. He arrived to Uktpechlag on Aril 18, 1934, where he was engaged in literary work. In 1935 he was transferred from Chibyu to the remote Yedzhid-Kyrt mines (Еджид-Кырта), then in Intalag (Интинский ИТЛ), now, Komi Republic^[5]). Later he was transferred back to Chibyu. In April 1943 he was transferred to the internal prison of NKVD, Moscow, from which he was released.^{[6] [7]}

• Valerian (Rudich)
• Varlaam (Pikalov)
• Vasilieva, Raisa Rodionovna
• Vassian (Pyatnitsky)
• Volpin, Mikhail Davidovich
• Gavarin, Nikolai Ivanovich
• Girnyak, Iosif Iosifovich
• Glushkov, Mikhail Alexandrovich
• Gorodin, Leonid Moiseevich
• Zarkhin, Aleksandr Moiseevich
• Zvyagin, Pavel Zakharovich
• Ioann (Pashin)
• Ioannikiy (Speransky)
• Krasheninnikov, Mikhail Dmitrievich
• Krestnikov, Sergey Alexandrovich
• Kuzhma, Aleksandr Polikarpovich
• Lyubarsky, Nikolai Markovich
• Lyamin, Nikolai Nikolaevich
• Marinchenko, Nikolai Danilovich
• Mastepanov, Sergey Danilovich
• Naritsa, Mikhail Alexandrovich
• Nestor (Sidoruk)
• Nefyodov, Ivan Nikandrovich
• Nikon (Petin)
• Oshchepkov, Pavel Kondratyevich
• Pisarev, Viktor Evgrafovich
• Piatru̅lis, Vitautas
• Rozanov, Mikhail Mikhailovich
• Sokolov, Vladimir Ivanovich (Holy Martyr)
• Sydykov, Abdykerim Sydykovich
• Tikhonovich, Nikolai Nikolaevich
• Fomin, Sergey Vladimirovich (poet)
• Frederiks, Georgii Nikolaevich
• Shukalov, Sergey Petrovich
• Yusuf-zade, Aga-Baba Asker ogly
• Yakovin, Grigorii Yakovlevich

• • • • Hirniak, Iosyp Iosypovych Bobynskyi, Vasyl Petrovych Gzhytskyi, Volodymyr Zenonovych Baglyuk, Grigorii Mykytovich — Ukrainian and Russian writer, journalist, and editor.
• Batiiev, Dmytro Oleksandrovych — initiator of the creation of the Komi-Zyryan Autonomous Region.
• Bonch-Osmolovsky, Gleb Anatolievich — anthropologist and archaeologist.
• Lebid, Maksym Maksymovich - Ukrainian writer.
• Hraal-Arels'kyi — ego-futurist poet
• Liubarskyi, Mykola Markovych — RSFSR ambassador to Mongolia.
• Nazvanov, Mikhail Mikhailovich — artist.
• Razuvaiev, Hryhorii Oleksiiovych — chemist-scientist.
• Frederiks, Heorhii Mykolaiovych — geologist and paleontologist.
• Smirnov, Konstantin Alexandrovich — archbishop.
• Shukalov, Serhii Petrovych — tank designer.

Notes and References

1. http://old.memo.ru/history/nkvd/gulag/r3/r3-442.htm УХТИНСКО-ПЕЧОРСКИЙ ИТЛ (УПИТЛаг, Ухтпечлаг)
2. Galina Soboliva, Судьбы героев и жертв, sketching an article about Batiev from the book И вся его жизнь by Veniamin Poleshchikov
3. https://museum.memo.ru/author/72/ Бигос Сергей Демьянович
4. https://xn--80aajhqhktebqcvc2c9e6cj.xn--p1ai/individuals/%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%87-%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B1-%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Бонч-Осмоловский Глеб Анатольевич
5. https://gulagmap.ru/camp356 Щугорский ИТЛ
6. Introduction to the book Остап Вишня, Вишневі усмішки. Заборонені твори,
7. Introduction to the book Остап Вишня. Невеселе життя