National composition of convicts*
| Nationalities within the USSR | |
| Russians | 33365 |
| Ukrainians | 7904 |
| Belorussians | 1083 |
| Azerbaijanian Turks | 275 |
| Grusinians (Georgians) | 212 |
| Armenians | 285 |
| Turkmens | 201 |
| Usbeks | 337 |
| Tadzhiks | 77 |
| Kazakhs | 437 |
| Kirghizes | 43 |
| Finns and Karelians | 82 |
| Moldavians | 205 |
| Lithuanians | 507 |
| Letts | 530 |
| Estonians | 380 |
| Tatars | 813 |
| Bashkirians | 68 |
| Udmurts | 49 |
| Jews | 378 |
| Others | 1020 |
| Nationalities from other countries | |
| Germans | 778 |
| Poles | 493 |
| Romanians | 38 |
| Iranians | 4 |
| Afghans | |
| Mongoles | 2 |
| Chinese | 25 |
| Japanese | 68 |
| Koreans | 44 |
| Greeks | 45 |
| Turks | 10 |
| Others | 64 |
| ____________________ | |
| Total | 49822 |
Foreign nationalities (from among the convicts)
| Total | Thereof POWs and internees | |
| Germany | 43 | 37 |
| Japan | 23 | 1 |
| Italy | ||
| Rumania | 13 | 7 |
| Finland | ||
| France | ||
| Poland | 28 | 4 |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 1 |
| England | ||
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | |
| USA | ||
| Hungary | 13 | 6 |
| China | 6 | |
| Bulgaria | ||
| Turkey | ||
| Albania | ||
| Iran | 5 | |
| Greece | 1 | |
| Afghanistan | ||
| Other countries | ||
| Spain | 3 | |
| Austria | 10 | 3 |
| Manchuria | 1 | |
| Korea | 8 | |
| In all: | 160 | 59 |
| All nationalities: | 36 | 15 |
| Total: | 196 | 74 |
*State Archives of the Russian Federation. Holdings – 9414 et seq., inventory –
1 et seq., file 641, Sheets-N°. 28-29
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«Norilsk Memorial», Edition 3, October 1996
Editor: Executive board of the Norilsk affiliate of the Allunion „Memorial“
Organization and the Museum of the history of exploitation and development of
the Norilsk industrial area.