Kornilyevo

{{Infobox settlement |official_name = Kornilyevo |native_name = Корнильево |settlement_type = Village |image_skyline = Kornilievo-Komelsky Monastery-2.jpg |image_caption = Old monastery ruins |pushpin_map = Russia Vologda Oblast#European Russia#Russia |pushpin_mapsize = |pushpin_map_caption = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Russia |subdivision_type1 = Region |subdivision_name1 = Vologda Oblast |subdivision_type2 = District |subdivision_name2 = Gryazovetsky District |timezone1 = |utc_offset1 = +3:00 |timezone1_DST = |utc_offset1_DST = |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |elevation_m = |elevation_footnotes = |coordinates = {{coord|58|49|N|40|14|E|display=inline,title}}<ref>[https://mapdata.ru/vologodskaya-oblast/gryazoveckiy-rayon/mestechko-kornilevo/ Местечко Корнильево на карте]</ref> }} '''Kornilyevo''' ({{langx|ru|Корнильево}}) is a rural locality (a village) in Rostilovskoye Rural Settlement, Gryazovetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 99 as of 2002.<ref>Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004.</ref>

== Geography == Kornilyevo is located {{Convert|6|km|abbr=on}} south of Gryazovets (the district's administrative centre) by road. Talitsa is the nearest rural locality.<ref>[http://allroutes.ru/rasstoyanie_kornilevo_grjazovec Расстояние от Корнильева до Грязовеца]</ref>

==History== During World War II, the former monastery was the location of a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp for Polish, Finnish and German POWs. Initially, it housed over 3,000 Poles from the German-Soviet invasion of Poland until November 1939, then nearly 700 Finns from the Soviet invasion of Finland until April 1940, and then again 395 Polish POWs from June 1940.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Janczak|first=Bartosz|year=2016|title=Obozy jenieckie w Griazowcu w latach 1939–1948|journal=Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny|location=Opole|language=pl|volume=39|pages=27–30|issn=0137-5199}}</ref> Both Poles and Finns were exposed to poor conditions, including cold, shortages of food and medicines, overcrowding, mistreatment by Russian guards and attempts at communist indoctrination.<ref name=bj28>Janczak, pp. 28, 30</ref> They often suffered from depression and illnesses, and some died.<ref name=bj28/> They were also deprived of the possibility of corresponding with relatives.<ref name=bj28/> Some Polish POWs were deported to camps in Starobilsk and Ostashkov, and eventually murdered in the Katyn massacre.<ref>Janczak, pp. 28–29</ref> Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in August 1941, Polish General Władysław Anders visited the camp, and the Poles were released to join the Anders' Army.<ref>Janczak, p. 37</ref> From 1942 to 1948, the camp housed several thousand German POWs.<ref>Janczak, p. 38</ref>

After 1948, the former camp housed a prison and later a psychiatric hospital.<ref>Janczak, p. 41</ref>

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Category:Rural localities in Gryazovetsky District Category:World War II sites in Russia