- Source: Rechlag
Rechlag also known as Special Camp no.6, Osoblag no. 6 (Russian: Речлаг, Особый лагерь № 6, Особлаг № 6) was a Gulag special labor camp headquartered in Vorkuta, Komi ASSR. It was established on August 27, 1948, from camp departments (лагерное отделение) of Vorkutlag and disestablished on May 26, 1954, by joining back into Vorkutlag.
It is particularly known for Vorkuta uprising.
Notable inmates
Horst Bienek, German novelist and poet
Homer Harold Cox, American military policeman, kidnapped while off duty, in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany in East Berlin.
Anatoly Gurevich, Soviet intelligence GRU officer
Pietro Leoni, Italian priest of the Society of Jesus and the Russian Greek Catholic Church. His memoir of surviving the Gulag, Spio dei Vaticano!, was published after his return to the West.
Armand Maloumian, Frenchman of Armenian descent, author of the memoir Les fils du Goulag
Elena Vladimirovna Markova, Soviet and Russian cyberneticist
Jānis Mendriks, Latvian Catholic priest
Nadezhda Ulanovskaya, Soviet intelligence GRU officer, translator, and English teacher, arrested for treason, specifically for the transfer of information about the Great Purge for Australian Godfrey Blunden for the 1947 book A Room on the Route published in the US.
ru:Робс, Мартиньш, Latvian engineer
ru:Хорол, Иосиф Михайлович, Soviet dissident, member of the Zionist movement in Soviet Union
ru:Игнатавичус, Стасис, Lithuanina engineer, one of the leaders of the Vorkuta uprising
ru:Колесников, Виктор Демьянович Soviet Air force officer, and MGB officer, one of the leaders of the Vorkuta uprisin
ru:Маркова, Елена Владимировна, Soviet computer scientist, convicted of cooperation with Germans during World War II, rehabilitated in 1960
ru:Цэцулеску, Александр Иванович, Romanian physician
ru:Доброштан, Игорь Михайлович, Soviet engineer
ru:Мехтиев, Борис Мехтиевич, Soviet Azerbaijani military commander
ru:Фиттерман, Борис Михайлович, Soviet engineer, automobile designer
ru:Кендзерский, Феликс Феликсович, Polish engineer topographer, Polish Armed Forces commander, one of the leaders of the Vorkuta uprising
ru:Буц, Эдвард Антонович, Polish Home Army member, one of the leaders of the Vorkuta uprising
ru:Дерман, Генриетта Карловна, Latvian library scientist
ru:Рождественский, Михаил Васильевич, protoiereus in the Soviet union, member of the church dissident Josephite movement
ru:Самутин, Леонид Александрович, geologist, Vlasovite, one of the leaders of the Vorkuta uprising
