Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: The Cultural – Educational Work in the Camps of the GULAG of the NKVD During the Great Domestic War (on the Example of the CHELYABLAG)

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Cultural – Educational Work in the Camps of the GULAG of the NKVD During the Great Domestic War (on the Example of the CHELYABLAG)

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2009 2 (2)
Authors: Kolomeyskiy, Ilya A.
Contact information: Ilya A. Kolomeyskiy: South-Ural State University, 76 Lenin av., Chelyabinsk, 454080 Russia, e-mail:
Keywords: the GULAG; the Chelyablag; the cultural-educational work; camps of the GULAG of the NKVD; the KVO; the KVCH
Abstract: In the article we consider the specificity of the organization of the cultural – educational work in the camps of the GULAG of the NKVD during the Great Domestic war (1941-1945) on example of the Chelyablag. Instructive and survey documents of device of the GULAG of the NKVD are compared to the documents generated in the jails: the reports, the materials of wall and the large-circulation seales etc. The analysis of the information allows us to draw a conclusion that the cultural-educational work in the Chelyablag was a major factor of mobilization of the prisoners to the performance of urgent and large-scale tasks of the rise of the national economy during the war.
Pages: 200-208
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/922