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About Yertsevo
Yertsevo (Russian: Ерцево) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Konoshsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located west of Lake Vozhe. Population: 4,201 (2010 census); 4,013 (2002 census); 4,683 (1989 Soviet census).
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History
Yertsevo was the location of a Soviet concentration camp of the Gulag system before, during, and after World War II. The Yertsevo Camp Complex, one of over a dozen such complexes shared between Arkhangelsk and Vologda Oblasts, was established by the Soviet State Political Directorate secret service already in the 1930s. Since 1940, the camp was managed by the Kargopolsky ITL (Ispravitelno-Trudovoy Lager) directorate. It was located about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the forest where the prisoners cut lumber all day, year-round, usually up to their waist in snow, emaciated, and always hungry.
Witness accounts confirm that the prisoners could survive in the forest-brigade for no more than two years. The dead were buried in mass graves with wooden tags attached to their legs with a string. Only the fresh young arrivals in the Yertsevo camp were put through the forest ordeal. The work productivity norm set by the prison administration was impossible to reach for many of the victims.
Yertsevo was granted urban-type settlement status in 1960, but was demoted to a rural locality on January 1, 2005.
From the History section of Yertsevo on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
- Konosha 22 km northeast, about 22 min by car
- Vozhega 37 km south, about 37 min by car
- Podyuga 54 km northeast, about 54 min by car
- Voloshka 59 km north, about 59 min by car
- Solginskiy 74 km northeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Ust’-Shonosha 79 km northeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
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- Herling-Grudzinski monument - Yertsevo 2009, Виртуальный музей Гулага, Public domain
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