Correctional labour camp

[3] Since the new leadership did not trust the old cadres, control over the correctional institutions continued to weaken, moreover, many territories of the former Russian Empire fell from the center's jurisdiction.

[7] The term "corrective labour camp" was introduced in the Soviet Union on June 27, 1929 at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

[8] On July 11, 1929, by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union "On the Use of Labour of Criminal Prisoners", two parallel structures of places of deprivation of liberty were created: under the jurisdiction of the United State Political Administration of the Soviet Union and under the jurisdiction of the republican People's Commissariats of Internal Affairs.

The basis of the first structure was made up of correctional labour camps for those sentenced to imprisonment for a term of more than three years, and the second structure included places of imprisonment for persons sentenced to a term of up to three years, for the maintenance of which it was necessary to organize agricultural and industrial colonies (correctional labour colonies).

[9][10] Prisoners of correctional labour camps took part in the construction of canals, roads, industrial and other facilities in the Far North, Far East and other regions on a massive scale.