Correctional Labor Colony №12 of the Ural Region

The article examines documents about camps belonging to the Gulag system in the West Kazakhstan region in the 30-50s of the twentieth century, including about a separate camp point No. 12, found in the department of secret funds of the regional archive. The creation and activities of a separate camp point No. 12 and its subordinate legal institutions located in the village of Pridorozhnoye in the Terektinsky district of the West Kazakhstan region are being studied for the first time, secret archival documents have been declassified and are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The article outlines the policy of mass imprisonment of those who resisted the Soviet government and the purpose of using their labor as "manpower" on the construction sites of the Soviet national economy. According to the content of the scientific article, the documents found in the state archive of the West Kazakhstan Region indicate that the situation of political prisoners in the camps should be analyzed comparably with the problems of prisoners of the KARLAG system and the department of camp No. 12 of the West Kazakhstan Region (ITC No. 12). The state archive of the West Kazakhstan Region contains quarterly and annual reports of the department of camp No. 12 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kazakh SSR for 1947-1952, financial reports of the farm, conditions of detention of prisoners, lists and other statistical data that allow for a comprehensive study, to determine how large-scale and systematic the political repressions carried out in our region were.