Food supply for prisoners in the Krasnoyarsk correctional labor camp in 1941-1945

This article is devoted to the analysis of the problem of food supply for prisoners of the Krasnoyarsk correctional labor camp during World War II (1941-1945), defining of energy value of ration of prisoners and its comparison with the standards of provision for other groups of population. It is identified that the specific character of food supply during the war was the general reduction of rations and also its standard and differentiated distribution, concerning all groups of people in the USSR, including prisoners. During all the years of war the problem of food supply for prisoners was not solved and the energy value of their ration was 30 % lower than of the prewar level.