Minlag

Minlag or Mineralny Camp Directorate (Минлаг, Минеральный лагерь, Особый лагерь № 1 (Special Camp no. 1), Особлаг № 1) was an MVD special camp for political prisoners within the Gulag system of the Soviet Union. It was established on February 28, 1948 based on the Inta labor camp (Inta ITL), Komi ASSR. In 1954, after Stalin's death it was reorganized into an ordinary Mineralny Corrective Labor Camp (Минеральный ИТЛ, Mineralny ITL).

Notable inmates

• Jaan Kross, Estonian writer
• Viktoras Petkus, Lithuanian political activist and Soviet dissident
• , Ukrainian Insurgent Army fighter
• , Lithuanian engineer, member of anti-Soviet resistance
• , Slovak Catholic priest, founder of the Pontifical Russian College (Russicum)
• Aleksei Kapler, second sentence, after serving in Vorkutlag

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