Takhtamygda

 village, place with historical importance

Rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Takhtamygdinsky Selsoviet of Skovorodinsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,676 as of 2010.

Tahtamygdinskoe LO GULAG
1-e Tahtamygdinsk Camp Branch was formed in 1933 as a structural unit of the Baikal-Amur ITL (Bamlag). Served head of the construction of BAM (line Tahtamygda-Tynda: 190 km, completed in late 1937), increased to more than 3500 people. Prisoners otsypali again and expand the existing earth bed, placed second way Transiba built sorting and precinct stations, railway towns. The camps were located along the construction routes and separately - on the outskirts of the village. Tahtamygda (Village BAM).
In 1938, upon completion of construction, Tahtamygdinskoe LO was perepodchineno East Rail ITL of railway construction and re-education camps, GULAG NKVD in the Far East and closed completely in 1940.

In early 1940, a new Amur railway ITL, directly to the Gulag, to which the Central remzavod N 1 Tahtamygde (882 prisoners).
In 1941 in the village of inmates of the General Directorate of the NKVD USSR airfield was built airfield for the Air Force Red Army.

In late 1942, prisoners Tahtamygdinskoe LO will start dismantling the upper track to the connecting area of the Aral Sea basin - Tynda. Following through Skovorodino, with rail cars headed for the place of construction of roads rokadnoy Saratov - Ilovlya on which the goods were for the defenders of Stalingrad. Disassembly of the railroad was continued in January 1943 - the rails were to build a railway between the stations and Kulundu Mikhailovskoye in Western Siberia.

In September 1945, a prison camp Amursky N 2, consisting of 16 branches that included offices in the stations of Bam in brickworks and Tahtamygdinskom mechanical factory.

From March 1948 to April 1953 there were Tahtamygdinskoe LO, subordinate Glavspetstsvetmet - Special General Office. His office located in the vicinity of the station Tahtamygda. The number of prisoners it reached 1000 people employed in service industries: Tahtamygdinskogo mechanical repair plant and central plant Glavspetstsvetmeta.
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