Vorkuta uprising

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Vorkuta uprising
Vorkuta Gulag in 1940s
Date 19 July 1953 – 1 August 1953 Location Vorkutlag, Vorkuta, Soviet Union 67°30′51″N 64°05′02″E / 67.51417°N 64.08389°E / 67.51417; 64.08389 Result Uprising suppressed
Belligerents
Soviet Army Prison Guards	Vorkuta inmates
Casualties and losses
	57 killed
class=notpageimage| Location within European Russia

The Vorkuta Uprising was a major uprising of forced labor camp inmates at the Rechlag Gulag special labor camp in Vorkuta, Russian SFSR, USSR from 19 July (or 22 July) to 1 August 1953, shortly after the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria on 26 June 1953. The uprising was violently stopped by the camp administration after two weeks of bloodless standoff.^[1]