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.
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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