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The Mudyug camp - “the death island” - the first concentration camp in Russia was organized by British occupational forces near Arkhangelsk (North Russia) on the island of Mudyug in 1918. British forces and Russian Whites imprisoned and executed there the suspects and sympathizers of revolutionary forces who were called ‘undesired elements’. The majority of the prisoners were local anarchists (mostly revolutionary sailors). The rest - members of the Committees of the Poor and defectors who refused to fight against the Reds. In 1919 there began an uprising of the prisoners. 53 prisoners managed to breakthrough out of the camp and seize two boats - one boat was drowned, however, 32 prisoners escaped on the second one and successfully reached the Reds. The next day there began the executions of the captured runaways and their supporters. The rest of the prisoners were soon transported to another British concentration camp in Yokanga (in the Kola peninsula).