"We were called the Nazis"

Tavda is a small town in the north of the Sverdlovsk region. In Stalin's times, it was one of the islands of the Gulag Archipelago. The first camps were created here in 1936. The control of Tavdinlag was also deployed here. Tavda camps contained tens of thousands of prisoners engaged in the construction of industrial enterprises. In 1942, Tavda’s camp contingent was replenished by the labor, mainly by the Germans. Until now, almost a third of the local residents wear the surname Steinbrecht, Palm, Zinner, Shil, Schumacher .... The past in Tavd today resembles traces of dugouts in the taiga, rickety barracks, old forest roads - on which the forested forest, and the nameless cemeteries were exported, where the convicts were buried in the mass graves and buried the convicts and buried the convicts and buried the convicts Trudarmys.