- Bakal
Bakal ( _ru. Бакал) is a town in
Satkinsky District ,Chelyabinsk Oblast ,Russia , located on the Western slopes of theUral Mountains 264 km west fromChelyabinsk , on the railroad branch Chelyabinsk–Ufa . Population: 22,314 (2002 Census); 24,101 (1989 Census).Bakal was founded in 1757 as a settlement of
serf s resettled to man new Bakaliron ore mines owned by the association of Ivan and Yakov Tverdyshev (Иван & Яков Твердышевы) and Ivan Myasnikov (Мясников Иван Семенович).Town was granted to Bakal on
October 25 ,1951 .The main enterprise is
public company "Bakal Mining Administration" (ОАО "Бакальское рудоуправление", commonly referred by its abbreviation, "БРУ"). The bureaucratic-style name is inherited from Soviet times.During 1941-1943 a
gulag labor camp existed in the area known as Bakal ITL ("Bakal Corrective Labor Camp"),Bakallag (Бакаллаг, abbr. for "Bakal camp") or Bakalstroy ofUSSR NKVD (Бакалстрой, abbr. for "Bakal construction"), with headquarters in Chelyabinsk. Main occupations: construction of a metallurgic, coke, and other plants,logging ,mining . Peak inmate count: about 4,200. In addition, Bakalstruy was manned by Germans (peak count: over 27,000 (January 1942)).External links
* [http://www.bakal.net/ Bakal portal]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=54.93333,58.8&spn=0.1,0.1&t=k&hl=en Bakal aerial image] fromGoogle maps
* [http://www.memo.ru/history/NKVD/GULAG/index.htm Bakal ITL] (a "Memorial" site)
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