Inta ( Russian : Инта́ , Komi : Инта ) is a town in the Komi Republic , Russia . Population: 32,080 ( 2010 Census ) ; 41,217 ( 2002 Census ) ; 60,220 ( 1989 Soviet census ) .
6-575: Inta was founded around 1940 as a settlement to support a geological expedition to explore coal deposits and projecting of mines. The city and a separate forced labor camp ( Intalag ) was built by deportees and political prisoners working in the coal mines of the Pechora coal basin . The city's name is in the Nenets language and means 'well-watered place.' During the Soviet era, a " corrective labor camp ", Intalag ,
12-729: Is served by the Inta Airport and the Kotlas – Vorkuta railway line. Inta is situated on the banks of the river Bolshoya Inta. At Inta, there is a CHAYKA -transmitter with a 460-meter tall guyed mast , which is the second-tallest structure in Europe. [REDACTED] Media related to Inta at Wikimedia Commons Intalag The Inta Corrective Labor Camp or Intalag ( Russian : Инти́нский исправи́тельно-трудово́й ла́герь, Инталаг , romanized : Intínskiy ispravítel'no-trudovóy láger' , also abbreviated Intinlag, Intlag, and Intastroy)
18-461: The camp commander on 26 March 1943. The camp was transferred to the General Directorate of Mining and Metallurgy Camps (GULGMP) on 5 October. Colonel M.I. Khaleyev became camp commander on 16 September 1944, and would command the camp for the rest of its existence. The Shchugorugol camp was split off from Intalag on 15 September 1945, but reabsorbed at the end of 1946. At the beginning of 1947,
24-610: Was Captain Mikhail Savich Zdunis, who led it until 17 July 1942, and it was subordinated to the General Directorate of Railway Construction Camps (GULZHDS). The camp's prisoners were tasked with mining the Inta coal deposit and building and operating (from 11 September 1942) the Inta Central Electric System. On 27 July, Senior Lieutenant V.P. Sokolov took command of the camp, replacing Zdunis. Major G.B. Orlovsky became
30-579: Was a forced labor camp of the Gulag , which existed between 1941 and 1948 near the town of Inta in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . Prisoners at the camp were mainly engaged in the mining of local coal deposits. Intalag was established on 17 November 1941 by being separated from Vorkutlag . Despite its name, the camp was not actually located at Inta until 1942, being initially located at Vorkuta . The first camp commander
36-431: Was located here. Within the framework of administrative divisions , it is, together with two urban-type settlements ( Verkhnyaya Inta and Kozhym ) and twenty rural localities, incorporated as the town of republic significance of Inta —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , the town of republic significance of Inta is incorporated as Inta Urban Okrug . It
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