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General Map of the Detained Japanese POW Labor Camps in the USSR and the Outer Mongolia around 1946

Over 20,000Over 10,000Less than 10,000

A small number

Note 2. The notations indicate the central point of the location of the labor camps.

Kolym

aLenaPyasina

Vilyuy

Arctic Circle

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Irtysh

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ian

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Norwegian Sea

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Arctic Ocean Note 1.

Laptev Sea

Sea of Okhotsk

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ng S

ea

Sea of

Japa

n

Yellow Sea

U.S.S.R.

OUTERMONGOLIA MANCHURIA

KOREAREPUBLIC OF CHINA

FINLAND

JAPANTrans-Caspian Railway

South Siberian Railway

Kuibyshev Railway System

Gor’Kiy Railway System

West Siberian Railway

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istan

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eria

n Ra

ilway

Baikal-Amur Magistral Line

Chinese Eastern Railway

Pechora Railway

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