Chaunsky ITL DALSTROYA GULAG. CHAUNLAG - Uranium mining Chukotka

 place with historical importance, abandoned / shut down, radioactive, GULAG, uranium mine, abandoned mine/quarry

Chaunsky ITL (Chaunlag, ITL Manage. PO Box 14) Dalstroya operation from August 1951 to April 1953, his administration was deployed in the town of Pevek (Chukotka okrug).
The maximum number of prisoners there were 11000 people who were involved in the exploration, extraction and enrichment of radioactive materials and road construction.
Chaunsky ITL has been established for the industrial development of uranium deposits, confirmed in 1947 by Igor Rogdestvensky party.

"... everywhere around the extended tenure of GULAG: located in the hill villages of North, West and East - is the former camp, all roads, power lines, towns in the province have been forgotten by God are difficult prisoners. And it is no exaggeration to say that their bones. For example, the East - that uranium enrichment plant, which produced uranium concentrate. And if the North and West kept Zeki, who fulfilled his term and could return to normal life, in the East, according to residents Pevek worked suicide, there remain forever! Former processing factory in the village. East. Nasikovsky Junior Sergeant. Cemeteries there were entire fields that do not bury the bodies, they were simply overwhelmed with stones.
Besides burying staff camp guards, civilian members and their families, including children. However, their graves were quite different, there were small metal monuments and fences, which are meant to remind the military cemetery in central Russia. In fact, many prisoners were released to work in these places in the camps, but as civilian employees at the sawmills, warehouses, etc. "

It produced raw materials for the first atomic bomb the Soviet Union.
www.memo.ru/history/NKVD/GULAG/r3/r3-451.htm