Main Camp Directorates With Acronyms
- BAM: Baikalo-Amurskaya Magistral, Baikal-Amur Mainline (railway)
- BBK: Belomorsko-Baltiyskiy Kanal, White Sea-Baltic Canal
- ITL: "Ispravitelno-trudovoi lager'", or, literally, "corrective labor camp".
- LO: "Lesoobyedinenie", Logging works complex
- CW: Construction Works
- CS: Construction Site
- Dalstroy: Far East regional CW directorate
- Yeniseystroy: Yenisei River basin regional CW directorate
- SMU: "stroitelno-montazhnoe upravlenie", Administration of construction and installation works
- NKVD:- literally, the People's Commisariat of Internal Affairs
- MVD: literally, the Ministry of Internal Affairs
- UVD: literally, the Administration of Internal Affairs, subordinated to GUVD
- GUVD: literally, the Main Administration of Internal Affairs, renamed MVD
- PL: to mark sites that also detained Polish nationals
- TMFM: Traitor of Motherland Family Member (Russian: ЧСИР: член семьи изменника Родины), a category of repressed designated for the family members of the person who was recognized as the Traitor of Motherland; some camps were specifically designated to this category.
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