function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Mogilev archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.06.23]
Minsk diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

date and place
of death

09.11.1942

UkhtIzhemLag labour campGULAG slave labour camp network
today: Vetlasyan–Ukhta, Komi rep., Russia

details of death

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

15.05.1887

Khrapenevotoday: Vselyub ssov., Navahrudak dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.01.18]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1910

positions held

others related
in death

RUDŽIONISClick to display biography Steven

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

UkhtIzhemLag: Russian complex of concentration camps (Uktha–Izhma ITL, part of Gulag penal system) founded on 10.05.1938 as a result of the split of UkhtPechLag concentration camp complex with HQ in Chibyu (Ukhta) in Izhma river region, in Komi republic. Divided into a number of separate concentration subcamps. At peak in excess of 30,000 prisoners slaved at mines and processing plants (in oil and other materials). The number started to go down in c. 1953, the year of Joseph Stalin, Russian genocidal leader’s death, and in 1955, when UkhtIzhemLag was incorporated into another complex of Russian concentration camps, PechorLag, reached c. 6,000 inmates. Many Poles brought in 1939 after Russian invasion of Poland, Germans (including German women from Volga region) and nationals of Baltic countries (mainly after 1944) were held there. (more on: www.gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09])

UkhtPechLag: Russian complex of concentration camps founded in 1931 in Komi rep. as a result of discovery of oil reserves in Izhma river basin with headquarters in Chibyu (Ukhta) village. Later radium was discovered in the water from wells (most radium–rich water in the world). In 1930s additional oil and gas fields were discovered. All mining and processing was done by the prisoners. As a result of expanding prisoner base on 10.15.1938 UktpechLag was divided into four concentration camps’ complexes: Ukhtizhemlag (50,000 km2) with HQ in Chibyu (Ukhta), VorkutLag, Sevzheldorlag and UstVymlag. (more on: www.gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22])

UstVymLag: There were two Russian slave labor concentration camps under the name UstVymLag. The first functioned from 06.06.1931 to 05.02.1932, with the seat of in Syktyvkar in the Komi republic, and was managed by the criminal OGPU. Tthe number of prisoners was max. 23,056 (1,758 women). The prisoners worked as slaves on the construction of the Syktywkar–Ukhta road and the Piniug–Syktywkar railway line. The camp was disbanded after the works were completed — the camp was then included into the UchtPechLag camp, and the prisoners were forced to build the Bielomor canal. After five years, on 16.08.1937 UstVymLag was split from UchtPechLag again, with the administrative center in Ust–Vym (later in Vozhael), in the Komi republic. The camp was subject to the Gulag system, and next to several branches of the Russian government. The max. number of prisoners at any one time was 24,245 (1943), including 2,104 women — the majority, 14,522, were convicted of „anti–revolutionary activities”. Mortality in 1938 was c. 8%. The slaves worked mainly on logging forests, processing wood, producing skis, railway sleepers, furniture, as well as manufacturing of bricks, clothes and shoes. The camp operated until c. 1960. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09])

UstUkhtaLag: One of the concentration camps in the Komi republic (beyond Arctic Circle). (more on: www.gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22])

Uchta: Local capital of a series of Russian concentration camps and forced labour camps — among others in diamond mines and at oil production — part of GULAG penal system, in the Komi republic (beyond Arctic Circle) — such as Uchpechłag, VorkutLag, Inta, Uchwymlag, Uchtiżemlag, Sieżeldor forced labour camps. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17])

Gulag: Network of Russian slave labour concentration camps. At any given time up to 12 mln inmates where held in them, milions perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09])

Minsk: Russian prison. In 1937 site of mass murders perpetrated by the Russians during a „Great Purge”. After Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War place of incarceration of many Poles, In 06.1941, under attack by Germans, Russians murdered there a group of Polish prisoner kept in Central and co‑called American prisons in Mińsk. The rest were driven towards Czerwień in a „death march” (10,000‑20,000 prisoners perished), into Russia. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17])

Polish-Russian war of 1919—21: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik–like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20])

sources

personal:
crusader.org.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02], biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09], cathol.memo.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02], ru.openlist.wikiClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]
bibliograhical:, „Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‑39. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin,
original images:
ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]