According to semi-official Soviet estimates, which will…
1948 CE to 1959 CE
Another seven to eight million people had been internally deported to remote areas of the Soviet Union (including entire nationalities or ethnicities in several cases).
The size, scope, and scale of the Gulag slave-labour camps remain subjects of much research and debate.
Many Gulag camps operate in extremely remote areas of northeastern Siberia.
The best-known clusters include Sevvostlag (the North-Eastern Corrective Labor Camps) along the Kolyma and Norillag near Norilsk, where sixty-nine thousand prisoners live in 1952.
Major industrial cities of Northern Siberia, such as Norilsk and Magadan, will develop from camps built by prisoners and run by former prisoners.
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