Kornilyevo
Kornilyevo
Корнильево | |
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Village | |
 Old monastery ruins | |
  Kornilyevo .svg) Kornilyevo  Kornilyevo | |
| Coordinates: 58°49′N 40°14′E / 58.817°N 40.233°E[1] | |
| Country | Russia |
| Region | Vologda Oblast |
| District | Gryazovetsky District |
| Time zone | UTC+3:00 |
Kornilyevo (Russian: Корнильево) is a rural locality (a village) in Rostilovskoye Rural Settlement, Gryazovetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 99 as of 2002.[2]
Geography[edit]
Kornilyevo is located 6 km south of Gryazovets (the district's administrative centre) by road. Talitsa is the nearest rural locality.[3]
History[edit]
During World War II, the former monastery was the location of a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp for Polish, Finnish and German POWs. Initially, it housed over 3,000 Poles from the German-Soviet invasion of Poland until November 1939, then nearly 700 Finns from the Soviet invasion of Finland until April 1940, and then again 395 Polish POWs from June 1940.[4] Both Poles and Finns were exposed to poor conditions, including cold, shortages of food and medicines, overcrowding, mistreatment by Russian guards and attempts at communist indoctrination.[5] They often suffered from depression and illnesses, and some died.[5] They were also deprived of the possibility of corresponding with relatives.[5] Some Polish POWs were deported to camps in Starobilsk and Ostashkov, and eventually murdered in the Katyn massacre.[6] Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in August 1941, Polish General Władysław Anders visited the camp, and the Poles were released to join the Anders' Army.[7] From 1942 to 1948, the camp housed several thousand German POWs.[8]
After 1948, the former camp housed a prison and later a psychiatric hospital.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ Местечко Корнильево на карте
- ^ Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004.
- ^ Расстояние от Корнильева до Грязовеца
- ^ Janczak, Bartosz (2016). "Obozy jenieckie w Griazowcu w latach 1939–1948". Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny (in Polish). 39. Opole: 27–30. ISSN 0137-5199.
- ^ a b c Janczak, pp. 28, 30
- ^ Janczak, pp. 28–29
- ^ Janczak, p. 37
- ^ Janczak, p. 38
- ^ Janczak, p. 41
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