Yavas
Sign in to saveYavas (; , Javaz) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in the Zubovo-Polyansky District of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 7,941. It is the location of women's corrective colony No. 2, Mordovia and corrective colony No. 11, Mordovia for men.
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Yavas
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Явас
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_name1
- Яваз
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_lang1
- Moksha
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_lang2
- Erzya
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Republic of Mordovia
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Zubovo-Polyansky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Yavas Work Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type
- Work Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
- Yavas Work Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Urban-type settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_type
- Work settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Zubovo-Polyansky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Yavasskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
- Yavasskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 7941
- Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes
- 431160
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Яваз
- Population
- 5849
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- postal code
- 431160
- inception
- 1931-00-00
- native label
- Яваз
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Yavas (; , Javaz) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in the Zubovo-Polyansky District of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 7,941. It is the location of women's corrective colony No. 2, Mordovia and corrective colony No. 11, Mordovia for men.
==History== It was founded in 1931 as the headquarters of the fast-paced camp system for prisoners, dubbed Temlag (named after the town of Temnikov) of the Gulag system, later transferred to Dubravlag. The settlement retains its value as one of the centers of the Russian penitentiary system.
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