What is this book about? Immediately after the war, the development of the Tomusinsky coal region began. In a short time, more than thirty zones were created here for prisoners of the Yuzhkuzbasslag camp association, who were mainly engaged in logging, rafting forests along rivers. About forty thousand people were kept in these camps and camp centers at the same time. Of these, six zones were women's. Political and criminals were kept together. In V1950, on the direct instructions of Stalin, the State Security Committee (Abakumov and Kruglov) developed measures to create "in remote areas of the country" Special Purpose camps for especially dangerous "enemies of the people." This camp was also created in Tomus. Its code name is "Kamyshlag." The camp consisted of three zones: the 1st - on the RUM (Myski), the 2nd - in the village of Olzheros, the 3rd - in Mezhdurechye (now the central part of Mezhdurechensk). The head of the camp was Colonel Maryin...