Kuloy

Kuloy is an city locality a piece agreement in Velsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, placed at the Kuloy River, 570 kilometers from Arkhangelsk and 24 kilometers from Velsk, the workplace of the district. The records of the agreement is going back to August 25, 1942, when Kuloy railway station of the North Pechora Railway turned into opened. The station changed into vital to get right of entry to the paintings camp constructing the railway. The railway changed into constructed the usage of pressured hard work by political prisoners, inflicting many deaths because of low safety and popular fitness of employees. There have been four men's and one ladies's work camp in Kuloy.

Work conditions have been extremely excessive. The employees needed to build their own ovens, get heat by way of standing near forged iron and write letters for his or her friends and family on portions of newspapers. They made the ink to put in writing via blending coal residue with kerosene. In 1944, barracks have been built to be used as dormitories for employees. Working on the railway changed into deemed voluntary, but the field and surveillance turned into organized through the navy. A station of Northern Railway's Moscow–Kotlas–Vorkuta line is positioned in Kuloy, offering jobs for a huge part of the working populace.