SEVVOSTLAG

'Sevvostlag' (, 'North-Eastern Corrective Labor Camps') was a system of forced labor camps set up to satisfy the workforce requirements of the ''Dalstroy'' construction trust in the Kolyma region in April 1932. Organizationally being part of ''Daltroy'' and under the management of the Labor and Defence Council of Sovnarkom, these camps were formally subordinated to OGPU later the NKVD directorate of the Far Eastern Krai. On March 4, 1938 Sevvostlag was resubordinated to the NKVD GULAG. In 1942 it was resubrdinated back to Dalstroy. In 1949 it was renamed to the Directorate of Dalstroy Corrective Labor Camps (Управление исправительно-трудовых лагерей Дальстроя). In 1953, after the death of Joseph Stalin, with the reform of the Soviet penal system, it was again resubordinated to Gulag and later reformed into the Directorate of Far Eastern Corrective Labor Camps Управление Северо-восточных исправительно-трудовых лагерей, УСВИТЛ (USVITL).

The inmates served the whole set of works of Dalstroy, the major ones being gold mining and road construction, including the infamous Kolyma Highway.

Contents

Management and headquarters

Stricture and prisoners

Notable inmates

References

Management and headquarters

★ R. Vaskov (Р.И. Васьков) - (11.03.32 - 09.28.34)

★ I. Filippov (И.Г. Филиппов) - captain of state security (09.28.34 - 12.21.37)

★ S. Garanin (С.Н. Гаранин) - (12.21.37 - 09.27.38)

★ A. Vishnevetsky (А.А. Вишневецкий) - captain of state security( 02.16.40 — 02.19.41)

★ E. Drabkin (Драбкин, Евекль Иделевич) - colonel of state security (05.19.41 - 03.13.45)

★ N. Titov (Н.Ф. Титов) - Major General (03.13.45 - 07.27.48)

★ A. Derevyanko (А.А. Деревянко) - Major General (07.27.48 - 05.03.51)
The management was initially headquartered in the Srednikan settlement (now Ust-Srednekan, Magadan Oblast). Since 1937 it was moved to the Nagayev Bay (, now Magadan Oblast), and eventually to Magadan.

Stricture and prisoners

Prisoners at the SevvostlagСВИТЛ, from the reference book "The System of Corrective Labor Camps in the USSR"
Year	Number	Year	Number
1932	11,100	1944	76,388
1934	29,659	1945	87,335
1935	36,313	1946	69,389
1936	48,740	1947	79,613
1937	70,414	1948	106,893
1938	90,741	1949	108,685
1939	138,170	1950	131,317
1940	190,309	1951	157,001
1941	179,041	1952	170,557
1942	147,976
1943	99,843
Figures for 1 January for each year. Figure for 1932 for December

Sevvostlag was the sole administration for the whole system of the forced labor of Dalstroy. The numerous labor camps usually mentioned for Kolyma and Dalstroy were formally referred to as subcamps ("camp subsivisions", лагерные подразделения) attached (but not subordinated) to the corresponding production units. Until 1950s the only exceptions were camps on the periphery of Kolyma, which while servicing Dalstroy, were either detached from or attached to Sevostlag at various times. History of Dalstroy
During 1945-1949 there was a subcamp for the Japanese POW in Magadan, counting 3, 479 by January 1, 1949.

Notable inmates

★ Osip Mandelshtam, poet

References

★ Дальстрой

★ Золотодобыча на Колыме

★ List of Magadan camps