1 2 3 5 6 4 7 8 9 10 11 20 16 18 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 41 43 45 42 47 40 39 46 44 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 13 12 14 15 21 19 17 73 72 General Map of the Detained Japanese POW Labor Camps in the USSR and the Outer Mongolia around 1946 Over 20,000 Over 10,000 Less than 10,000 A small number Note 2. The notations indicate the central point of the location of the labor camps. Kolyma Lena Pyasina Vilyuy Arctic Circle Taz Irtysh Pechora Caspian Sea Aral S Lk Baikal Lk Balkhash Black Sea Baltic Sea Norwegian Sea Barents Sea Kara Sea Arctic Ocean Note 1. Laptev Sea Sea of Okhotsk Bering Sea Sea of Japan Yellow Sea U.S.S.R. OUTER MONGOLIA MANCHURIA KOREA REPUBLIC OF CHINA FINLAND JAPAN T r a n s - C a s p i a n R a il w a y S o u t h S i b e rian R a il w a y Kuibyshev Ra ilway System Gor’K i y Railw a y S y s t e m West Sib erian Railw a y T u r kis t a n - S iberian R a il w a y B aikal-A m ur Magistral Line Chinese E astern Railway Pechora Ra ilw ay O c t o b e r R a i l w a y