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    Dalstroy (Russian: Дальстро́й, IPA: [dɐlʲˈstroj]), also known as Far North Construction Trust, was an organization set up in 1931 in order to manage road...
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  • Dalstroy ITL Motor Transport Dalstroy ITL "NL" ITL No. 17 GUShOSDOR ITL Oboronstroe ITL Omskstroy (Omsky ITL, Omlag) ITL "Promzhilstroy" of Dalstroy ITL...
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    the area seemed tailor-made to provide this capital. A government agency Dalstroy (Дальстрой, acronym for Far North Construction Trust) was formed to organize...
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    workforce requirements of the Dalstroy construction trust in the Kolyma region in April 1932. Organizationally being part of Dalstroy and under the management...
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  • prisoners were said to have died, it has become the most infamous ship of the Dalstroy prison fleet. The ship was built in the Netherlands in 1921 as the SS Brielle...
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  • The Soviet steamer Dalstroy (formerly known as the Genrikh Yagoda) operated in the 1930s and 1940s from the port of Nakhodka to Magadan, delivering cargo...
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    August 1938) was a Soviet soldier, Chekist and NKVD officer that set up Dalstroy, which instituted a system of slave-labor camps in Kolyma, North-Eastern...
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    political prisoners during the Stalin era and the administrative centre of the Dalstroy forced-labor gold-mining operation. The town later served as a port for...
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    – 5 August 1958) was a Soviet NKVD Lieutenant General and director of Dalstroy. Nikishov was born in Varkino, in the Vologda Governorate of the Russian...
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    1930s and 1940s under the coordination of Dalstroy and its forced labor camps. Upon Stalin's death, Dalstroy was disbanded and the regional administration...
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    deliver prisoners and cargo for the Sevvostlag of the Soviet super-trust Dalstroy. The notorious Vladivostok transit camp was located in the city. In addition...
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  • 1930 Parbig uprising near Narym, 1931 Ust-Usa uprising [ru], 1942 SS Dalstroy explosion at Nakhodka Bay, 1946 Kolyma rebellion, 1946 Vorkuta uprising...
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    older estimates of up to 500,000). Of the group of 12,000 Poles sent to Dalstroy camp (near Kolyma) in 1940–1941, mostly POWs, only 583 men survived; they...
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    as the Kolyma Route (Russian: Колымская трасса Kolýmskaya trássa). The Dalstroy construction directorate built the Kolyma Highway during the Soviet Union's...
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  • Retrieved 24 April 2015. М. V. Tretyakov. The Development of Air Transport in Dalstroy in 1932–1957, in Вестник Университета Дмитрия Пожарского. 2016, No1(3)...
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    149.18889°E / 61.31667; 149.18889 Production Products tin, gold and uranium History Opened 1937 Closed 1956 Owner Company Tenlag, a branch of Dalstroy...
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    Berlag or Beregovoy Camp Directorate, Special Camp No. 5, Osoblag of Dalstroy ( Особый лагерь № 5 — «Береговой», Берлаг, Особлаг Дальстроя) ) was an MVD...
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    memorial badges for the crew. From 1932 until 1933 Litke was employed by Dalstroy, which was an NKVD organization in charge of Far Eastern gold mining. The...
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    continue the work of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1932–1933: Dalstroy expedition to the Kolyma River in a convoy headed by the icebreaker Fyodor...
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    in the western part of what is now Magadan Oblast under the control of Dalstroy. Gold mining and other industrial operations in the region were largely...
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  • Latvia, Russian: Советская Латвия) was a transport ship operated by the Dalstroy concern of the NKVD. One of its main uses was to transport prisoners as...
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  • philosopher Eduards Bērziņš (1894–1938) – soldier in the Red Army, later head of Dalstroy, the Kolyma forced-labour camps in North-Eastern Siberia Yan Karlovich...
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    passengers and 60 of the 210 crew died in the fire. 108 1946  Soviet Union Dalstroy – The Soviet steamer operating during the 1930s and 1940s from the port...
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    conspired with fellow prisoners or in other ways violated the rules of Dalstroy. Sometimes he was placed on a lower bread ration, but rarely as a direct...
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  • political prisoners in the Soviet Far East in the 1930s; see Dalstroy#Ships of the Dalstroy Hell ship, a ship with extremely unpleasant living conditions...
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    after Russian navigator Semyon Dezhnyov. It was formerly the setting for a Dalstroy gulag site and the alleged starting point for Clemens Forell's epic journey...
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    the south directly on the Kolyma, was the location of a prison camp of Dalstroy, part of the Gulag camp network. Up to 5,700 prisoners were used in the...
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    the research carried out following the February 19, 1941 directive of Dalstroy directorate. The peninsula adjoins the territory of the regional hunting...
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  • Magadan Oblast, however, is the highest peak of the Okhandya Range. A Dalstroy Aviation Antonov An-2 crashed on the mountainside by Mount Nevskaya in...
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  • from trains on ships following to Magadan - an administrative center of "Dalstroy" and Sevvostlag. The modern version of the song: Бирюков, Александр Михайлович...
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