The Norilkopstand (Russian: Норильское восстание; Norilskoje vosstanieje) was a prisoner in prison in the Norillag in the summer of 1953. It was the first major rebellion within the Goelag in the 1953 and 1954 but not the first insurgency this camp system.
The origin in the camp eruption was at prisoners who had also taken part in a camp suspension in the Norillag in 1952 and in the fact that Joseph Stalin died just before (in March) and in the subsequent amnesty only prisoners with a short prison sentence were released. However, the majority of prisoners in the Gorlag (mining department) consisted of long-term powers.
The uprising consisted of a strike during 69 days, from May to August 1953, by the prisoners in the Gorlag main camp. The term "insurgency" is misleading because the prisoners did not have weapons, but the Ministry of Interior did call it an "anti-Soviet armed counter-revolutionary uprising", although the Soviet tribunal later weakened it to "mass insubordination of prisoners against the camp management ". The term strike is also not entirely correct, as the uprising included a large spectrum of nonviolent forms of protest that were permitted under the laws of the Soviet Union, such as holding meetings, writing letters to the government and the love hunger strikes. For that reason, the term "Resurrection of the Spirit" is also presented as a term, as a form of violent protest against the Goelag system.
The prisoners demanded the following economic improvements during the uprising:
In addition, were required:
The government stepped in and smashed the revolt with violence, involving more than 100 people and injuring more than 250 people. There is evidence that the prisoners do not resist, but from behind with a gun shot shot. After a few months, however, there was a result: the heavy work in the camps was abolished.
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