Dubravlag or Dubravny Camp Directorate in GULAG

Dubravlag or Dubravny Camp Directorate (Дубравлаг, also Дубравный лагерь, Особый лагерь № 3, Особлаг № 3, Дубравный ИТЛ) was part of the Soviet system of Gulag labor camps, as well as part of the post-Gulag Soviet penitentiary system.

It was organized in 1948 as Gulag special camp No. 3 for political prisoners by merging Temlag (Temnikovsky ITL) and Temnikovsky child colony and headquartered at Yavas, Mordovian ASSR. 

In 1954 it was reorganized into a regular corrective labor camp (ITL).

Notable inmates

• Nina Gagen-Torn, poet, writer, historian and ethnographer
• Leonid Solovyov, writer and playwright. He wrote the second part of his dilogy about Hodja Nasreddinwhile serving time in Dubravlag
• Metropolitan Cornelius, the Metropolitan bishop of Tallinn and All Estonia, the head of the Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate
• Lagle Parek, Estonian stateswoman
• Irina Ratushinskaya, Soviet dissident, poet, writer, described her years in Dubravlag in her book Grey Is the Color of Hope (1989, Vintage. ISBN 0-679-72447-8)
• Yuli Daniel, Soviet dissident, writer
• Olga Ivinskaya, friend and lover of Boris Pasternak
• Alexander Ginzburg, Soviet dissident
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• Svyatoslav Karavansky
• Ivan Gel
• Vyacheslav Chornovil
• Vasyl Levkovych
• Yuri Badzio
• Michaylo Soroka (died in camp)
• Joseph Slipy