SS Dzhurma

SS Dzhurma (Russian: «Джу́рма», IPA: [ˈdʑurmə]) was a Soviet steamship of the Gulag system that transported prisoners. Because of an alleged 1933–34 incident wherein 12,000 prisoners were said to have died, it became the most famous ship of the prison fleet of the Dalstroi. The ship was built in the Netherlands in 1921 as SS Brielle. When the ship was sold to the Soviet Union in 1935, it was registered under the spelling Djurma, in accordance with the most common transliteration protocols of the time, but is now most commonly transliterated as Dzhurma.

SS Dzhurma

SS Dzhurma (Russian: «Джу́рма», IPA: [ˈdʑurmə]) was a Soviet steamship of the Gulag system that transported prisoners. Because of an alleged 1933–34 incident wherein 12,000 prisoners were said to have died, it became the most famous ship of the prison fleet of the Dalstroi. The ship was built in the Netherlands in 1921 as SS Brielle. When the ship was sold to the Soviet Union in 1935, it was registered under the spelling Djurma, in accordance with the most common transliteration protocols of the time, but is now most commonly transliterated as Dzhurma.