Yavas ( Russian : Ява́с ; Moksha : Яваз , Javaz ) is an urban locality (a work settlement ) in the Zubovo-Polyansky District of the Republic of Mordovia , Russia . As of the 2010 Census , its population was 7,941. It is the location of women's prison corrective colony No. 2, Mordovia .
5-493: It was founded in 1931 as the headquarters of the fast-paced camp system for prisoners, dubbed Temlag (named after the town of Temnikov ) of the Gulag system, later transferred to Dubravlag (Asherah camp). The settlement retains its value as one of the centers of the Russian penitentiary system . There are these penal institutions: The status of urban-type settlement was assigned to
10-877: Is incorporated within Zubovo-Polyansky District as Yavas Work Settlement (an administrative division of the district). As a municipal division , Yavas Work Settlement is incorporated within Zubovo-Polyansky Municipal District as Yavasskoye Urban Settlement . It is the birthplace of the Soviet/Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov (1962). Brittney Griner , a US basketball player, was imprisoned at Female Penal Colony IK-2 in Yavas , in 2022. Temlag Temlag (Темла́г), Temnikovsky Corrective Labor Camp (Темниковский исправи́тельно-трудово́й ла́герь), or Temnikovsky ITL (Темниковский ИТЛ)
15-507: The beginning of the 1930s, the village became the center of the CTI network opened here ("Dubravlag"). A factory for wood processing was built in 1941–1945. By the mid-1950s, a school, hotel, bath, residential buildings and a stadium were built, and the House of Culture was renovated. Within the framework of administrative divisions , the work settlement of Yavas, together with three rural localities ,
20-602: The settlement by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Mordovia on April 9, 1959. Located on Yavas River , 42 kilometres (26 mi) north from the district center Zubova Polyana and 36 kilometres (22 mi) from the railway station Potma . Founded in 1930 on the railway line Potma – Barashevo, it served as an area for harvesting industrial wood and firewood for Moscow . At
25-772: Was a camp of the Gulag labor camp system of the Soviet Union . It was in the Mordovian ASSR . Its name derives from the town of Temnikov because it was in Temnikov District, although its administration was in Yavas . It existed during 1931-1948. Major industries were logging , wood processing industries, and railroad construction. In addition it had a wide variety of other small-scale industries: construction, metalworking, railroad servicing, clothing and footwear production, etc. Upon liquidation its assets were split. The camp system
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