• Archbishop Augustine (
Alexander Belayev) (imprisoned in SvirLAG in 1931–1934, executed November 23, 1937),
Russian Orthodox archbishop. •
Stepan Rudnytsky –
Ukrainian geographer, founder of
Ukrainian geography (born in
Tarnopol in 1877, then
Austro-Hungary), sat in SvirLAG in 1933–1937 where he was also executed in 1937 . •
Yulian Shpol (literary name, in life: Mykhaylo Yalovyi – Ukrainian writer (born in
Poltava region), arrested in 1933 and May 11, 1934 with special convoy sent to SvirLAG, 2,5 years later executed in SvirLAG November 3, 1937. •
Sampson Sievers –
hieromonk (born of
English mother) of Saint Petersburg's
Alexander Nevsky Lavra was imprisoned and tortured in this camp (from 1932, what is witnessed by archival documents and personal testimonies), though survived. • (b. in 1876 in Russia's
Saratov Region, sat in SvirLAG in 1931–1932, died in
Kuybyshev prison in 1940 from heart paralysis) – archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church •
Magzhan Zhumabayev –
Kazakh poet, arrested by Soviet authorities in 1929, sent to Svirlag where he was imprisoned until June 2, 1934. Arrested again in 1935 in
Alma-Ata, March 1938 he was executed by organs of NKVD. ==References==