Ukhtpechlag forced labor camp
Ukhtpechlag labor camp was part of the GULAG of the NKVD of the USSR.
It was created on June 6, 1931 as a result of the reorganization of the Office of the Northern Camps of the OGPU for special purposes. Throughout the history of the camp, its chief was Yakov Moiseevich Moroz , who in 1936 received the title of senior major of state security.
On October 27, 1936, a mass hunger strike began in Ukhtpechlag to protest political prisoners convicted of "counter-revolutionary Trotskyist activity." For 132 days, starving people demanded separation of political prisoners from criminals, normal nutrition, working conditions in accordance with the Labor Code , provision of real medical assistance to political prisoners, urgent transportation of seriously ill patients to normal climatic conditions.
From March 1, 1938, mass executions of political prisoners of the Ukhtpechlag in the area of the Yun-Yaga River began. The punitive operation was led by the assistant to the chief of the II division of the III department of the GULAG, Lieutenant E.I. Kashketin. According to the Ukhto-Pechora branch of the Memorial society , based on declassified archival data, in 1937-1938 they shot: 86 prisoners in the village of Chibyu , 1779 in the Ukhtarka river region. In total, they were executed in various ways over these 2 years (without dead people) from hunger and disease) 2614 people.
Such a large number of prisoners could not be quickly destroyed in the “usual way”, and so they staged a pedestrian crossing to another camp and then opened machine-gun fire from an ambush. Then the living were finished off from revolvers. These events became known among prisoners as “Kashketin executions”.
citation: translated from the Russian, source credit Mara B****
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