Butugychag ( "Valley of Death") - OLP №12 GULAG. Uranium mines in Kolyma!

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Butugychag is subordinate Manage. PO Box 14 (dealing with extraction and enrichment of uranium for Soviet nuclear weapons).
In a separate camp Item number 12, organized in 1950, consisted of camp units (mine), located around the ridge Butugychag along Nelkobe in the key area of Hunter, as well as the factory for the enrichment of uranium ore: COMBES. Number 1.
The total number of / to the workers in mining, building. work and logging on 01.05.50 - 1204 people, 321 of them a woman, convicted of 541 k / s. crime.
In the period from 1949 to 1953. in the camp worked kassiteritovy mine «Miners» Tenkinskogo ITL DALSTROYA, elaborates Butugychagskoe field open BL Flerovym in 1936

The place got its name when the nomadic tribes of hunters and reindeer herders of birth Egorova, Dyachkova and Krohalevyh, kochuya Detrin on the river, met with a huge field, bespangled human skulls and bones, and when the deer in the herd began to hurt a strange disease - they are excluded in the first coat legs, and then animals lozhilis and could not stand. Mechanically this title was transferred to the remains of camps berievskih 14 th Branch GULAG.

In 1937, learning Kolyma Trust "Dalstroi" started production of a second after the gold metal - tin. Among the first mining of this profile and became mine "Butugychag", which for several years at the same time explore and give a target products. Residential and farm buildings erected for him prisoners organized here camp trip, and then grew into a separate camp (ARS), the same name.

Since its organization in 1937, the mine "Butugychag" was part of YUGPU - South mining management. Chief Geologist of the control GA Kechek 20 April 1938 in one of his memos said: "At Butugychagskom field work was carried out throughout the year. First, in very small volumes, and then in a few large ones. The volume of work a limited number of delivery of goods: food and technology.

Mine Butugychag was a complex mix - the factory: sorting and dressing, bromsberg, motovozka, thermal power plant. Sumy pumps are mounted in a chamber hollowed in the rock. Gone are the gallery. Built a village of two-storey houses chopped ...
In February 1948, at the mine "Butugychag" Camp Division organized a special camp № 4 № 5 - Berlaga "Coastal camps. At the same time there began to mine uranium ore. In this regard, based on the uranium deposit was organized by the plant number 1, who with two other mills joined the so-called First Office Dalstroi.
The camp office, serving the complex number 1, included the two camps. On 1 January 1950 they were 2,243 people. Same time "Butugychag" continued to mine tin. Extraction of the metal periodically reduced. For example, only for 1950 "Butugychag" got just over 18 tons of tin. In quantitative terms, it was simply a miser.
However, the "Butugychage" began to build hydro power plant of 100 tons of uranium ore per day. On 1 January 1952 the number of employees in the Office of the First Dalstroi increased to 14790 people. This was the maximum number of people employed in the construction and of mining works in this administration. Then he began to decline in the mining of uranium ore and the beginning of 1953 there were only 6130 people. In 1954, the supply of skilled workers the main company of the Office of the First Dalstroi more fell and amounted to "Butugychage" only 840 people.
In total, affected by changes in the political situation in the country, the last amnesty, which began rehabilitation of illegally repressed. "Butugychag began disabling its activities. By the end of May 1955 it was finally closed, but is here camp para eradicated forever. 18-year-old work "Butugychaga" right before your eyes has become history.

"Soon we entered the narrow valley between the gray hills. On the left, they were a solid dark gray stone wall. At the crest of the wall was snowing. Hills right were too high, but they gained altitude slowly, and they were visible to the tunnel dumps of stone, and in raspadkah what a wooden tower, ramps ...
In spring 1952, Butugychag consisted of four (and counting «Bacchante», one of five) major lagpunktov.
Above the central high up surge cone, but rounded, not sharp and not a rock hill. On the steep (45 degrees 50) of the slope there was a plane, rail road, which moved up and down two-wheeled platform. They pulled the ropes, waved a strong winch, establish and promote a specially harvested in a granite platform. The platform is located approximately three quarters of the distance from bottom to top. Plane was built in the mid 30's. He, of course, and now may serve as a guide for tourists, even if the rails are removed, as sole, which strengthened ties apex, was a shallow, but still a noticeable gap on the slope of a hill.
From the top terrace plane horizontal nitochkoy the slope hills, long, adjacent to the hill run, was right, narrow-gauge road to the camp «Sopka» and the company «Miners». Yakutsk name of the place where the camp was located and mine «Miners», - Shaitan. This was the most «old» and the highest above sea level mining company Butugychaga. They mined cassiterite, tin stone (up to 79 percent tin).
Camp «Sopka» was undoubtedly the worst of weather conditions. In addition, there was no water. And the water it delivers, how many goods on the plane and narrow gauge railways, and in winter was extracted from the snow. But there is almost no snow, the wind blow it. Stages in the «Sopko» followed by the pedestrian path on raspadku and - above - on the human path. It was a very hard climb. Cassiterite with mine «Miners» tram carried in narrow gauge railways, and then transshipped to the platform plane. Stages of «hill» were extremely rare.
When viewed with a diesel (go to Central) on a hill run, then left her a deep saddle, then a relatively small hill, which had left the cemetery. Through the saddle poor roads leading to the only female in the Butugychage OLPu. He called ... «Bacchante». But this is the name of the place still gave geologists prospectors. Job unfortunate women in the camp was the same as us: the mountain, heavy. And the title, though not specifically, it was thought (who knew that there would be a women's penal camp?) Gave sadistic. Women with «Bacchante» We have seen very rarely - when conducting their step on the road.
During the building of the former diesel stretched wide, but rapidly shrinking to Hill Valley. At the bottom of the main mouth of the mine was number 1 bis. Above the mouth of mine, over the access roads, offices, instrumentalkami, lamp, burpehom raised a huge mountain. It is within her, and mine was a number 1 BIS, in which prisoners worked with diesel. Called him a «scale». Rudnev vein there explore and develop essentially the same as at the mine number 1 - the ninth. Lifting machines were not powerful. Limit, limiting the depth of descent recovery butugychagskih lifting machines was 240 meters - and the engine power, and the drum, and the length of cables. Horizons at Butugychage were deep in the 40 meters ...
Rudoobogatitelnaya factory - a terrible, deathly place. In the crushing plant is the same, but more fine dust. And chemical, and pressing shops, and dryer (drying ovens for rich ore) have been extremely dangerous edkimi harmful fumes. Greater than the length of the furnace, the big steel disgusting ...
Mortality in Butugychage was very high. In the «therapeutic» spetszone (more accurately described as her dying), people were dying daily. Pococurante porter check the number of personal affairs with the number of finished tablets, three times puncture dead chest special steel pikoy, stick it in the dirty snow abscess near the watch and let the will of the deceased ...
The broad, sloping saddle between the hills, left the Central lagpunkta. There is a cemetery (or, as it is often called, Ammonalovka - in the side when it was ammonalny warehouse). Rough plateau. And all of it is covered with neat, straight, as far as terrain, rows barely noticeable tubercles oblong stone. And on each of tubercles on the strong, rather large wooden pegs - mandatory tin plate broken Hollow number. And if nearby clearly grave elevation (and sometimes even part of it is just the wooden coffins, put on a little bit cleared scree and furred with stones;
upper lid coffin is often wholly or partially visible), the more they merge with the bluish gray stone, and is no longer visible plaques, but only a few where the stakes ... "
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Steep hills, mines, cut in stone ridge, stone huts (the stone is a lot) of the narrow-gauge rail road ... and in the saddle between the hills, - a cemetery. Hundreds, maybe thousands of small, rickety tin plates with studs - numbered forms prisoners ignominious sginuvshih here in 30 - 50 years ...
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