Temlag (Темла́г),
Temnikovsky Corrective Labor Camp (Темниковский исправи́тельно-трудово́й ла́герь), or
Temnikovsky ITL (Темниковский ИТЛ) 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 was transferred to
Dubravlag while the industries were reorganized into the Temnikovsky Industrial Combine of Gulag (Темниковский Промкомбинат ГУЛАГа), which itself did not manage any camps, and later it was also merged into Dubravlag.
[ ТЕМНИКОВСКИЙ ИТЛ, from the reference book Система исправительно-трудовых лагерей в СССР]
Notable inmates
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, wife of Genrikh Yagoda
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, economist
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Nina Gagen-Torn, poet, writer, historian and ethnographer
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, artist
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, Slovak Catholic priest, arrested as the "agent of Holy See"
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Theresa Kugel, a Dominican Order nun of the Russian Greek Catholic Church
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Pietro Leoni, Italian citizen, priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church, and memoirist of the Gulag
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Unto Parvilahti, Finnish photographer, businessman, and SS-Officer
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, "chekist," director (1931-33) of SLON
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, Ukrainian activist
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, poet
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, Jewish poet
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Ümmügülsüm, Azerbaijani poet
