wouldn't set for three months which greatly affected the prisoners in Vorkutlag, prisoners weren't given good enough clothing to have survived the climate and many froze to death. Vorkuta in the present day Vorkuta is now a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. The remains of the GULAG are partly or almost entirely destroyed. Vorkuta is heavily declining in population and is slowly being abandoned, after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Mining companies moved farther into the southern regions of Russia. A majority of the population in Vorkuta worked in the nearby coal mines, after the coal mine companies moved many lost jobs and started moving out of Vorkuta. Today, Vorkuta is barely inhabited with a small population. the towns estimated population is about 50,000 and is still decreasing. Notable inmates Heinz Baumkötter: SS concentration camp doctor. Walter Ciszek, American Catholic priest and memoirist - survived. Shlomo Dykman (1917–1965): Jewish-Polish translator and classical scholar. Valentín González (1904–1983): Spanish Communist and Spanish Republican Army brigade commander during the Spanish Civil War – successfully escaped in 1949. Anton Kaindl (1902–1948): SS commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1942 and 1945. Jaan Kross (1920–2007): Estonian writer. Jānis Mendriks (1907–1953): Latvian Catholic priest. Der Nister (1884–1950): Yiddish writer. Eric Pleasants (1913-1998): British national who joined the Waffen-SS serving in the British Free Corps during the Second World War. John H. Noble (1923–2007): American survivor of the Soviet Gulag system (released after ~10 years) who wrote two books about experiences there. Homer Harold Cox, kidnapped in East Berlin in 1949 and released in 1953, together with US Merchant Marine Leland Towers, Americans in the Gulag. Zvi Preigerzon (1900–1969): Hebrew writer and coal enrichment scientist. Nikolay Punin (1888–1953): Russian art scholar, curator and writer. Common law husband of poetess Anna Akhmatova. Georgy Safarov (1891–1942): Bolshevik revolutionary, member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – executed. Günter Stempel (1908–1981): East German politician and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. Edward Buca (Russian Wikipedia page: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Буц,_Эдвард_Антонович). (1926-2013) Polish Home Army soldier who was arrested in August 1945. Notable guards Zoya Voskresenskaya, the chief of the Special Section of Vorkuta prison-camp, who served between 1955 and 1956. In popular culture "Return from Workuta", track n. 3 of the album 1978 Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano! (1978) by the Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion, electronic, experimental group Area – International POPular Group, most