Uranium minig by forced labor in post war Czechoslovakia - Jáchymov study area
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The Czechoslovakia became a source of uranium for the Soviet Union defuse industry after the World War II. Small area in the ore region in the western Czechoslovakia was in the centre of attention of world powers shortly after the war - the landscape around town of Jáchymov was the place of world exclusivity - uranium mining. It was the only place where the USSR could immediately obtain uranium ore and begin development nuclear weapons, especially after the U.S. toppled the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Development of Jáchymov area after the World War II is characterized by an exceptional dynamic processes driven by the interest of USSR: to buy uranium, the removal of the domination German population, the advent of new labour force, involuntary stay of thousands of prisoners of war and political prisoners, building of settlements and prison – concentration camps, open shafts, detailed geological research, creating heaps. The region represents both an example of disappearing traces of human activities as well as an example of mining area transformation. The mining system and the functional mining region were defined for the purposes of geographical research. The model of mining system contains the main objects and relationships between them, functional mining region consist of particular mining system and region. The employment of forced labours was a specific feature of the Jáchymov mining system. Based on research in the field and especially of data archived, we present the entire complex as a special mining system passing through several phases. |
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