Russia and the Soviet Union List of concentration and internment camps

syretzk concentration camp on outskirts of kiev.
darnitza concentration camp. on 68,000 soviet prisoners of war , peaceful citizens.

in imperial russia, labor camps known name katorga.

the first soviet camps organized in june 1918 detention of czechoslovak soldiers. solovki prison camp existed since 1923.

in soviet union, labour penitentiary camps called camps, plural ( lagerya ). these used forced labor camps, , had small percentages of political prisoners. after aleksandr solzhenitsyn s book titled gulag archipelago published, became known rest of world gulags, after branch of nkvd (state security service) managed them. (in russian language, term used denote whole system, rather individual camps.)

in addition referred gulag proper (consisting of corrective labor camps ) there corrective labor colonies , intended prisoners short sentences, , special resettlements of deported peasants. @ peak, system held combined total of 2,750,000 prisoners. in all, perhaps more 18,000,000 people passed through gulag in 1929–1953, , millions more deported , exiled remote areas of soviet union.

of 5.7 million soviet prisoners of war captured germans, 3.5 million of them had died in german captivity end of war. survivors treated traitors upon return ussr (see order no. 270). on 1.5 million surviving red army soldiers had been imprisoned germans sent gulag.

after world war ii, 3,000,000 german soldiers , civilians sent soviet labor camps, part of war reparations forced labor. less 1,000,000 of them returned germany.

since 2017, there have been reports of gay concentration camps in southern russia, allegedly being used extrajudicial detention , torture of men suspected of being gay or bisexual.

an extensive list of gulag camps being compiled based on official sources.