ss "djurma (, ) was a soviet steamship, occasionally used for transporting prisoners within the gulag system. because of an alleged 1933–34 incident wherein 12,000 prisoners were said to have died, it became the most famous ship of the dalstroy prison fleet. the ship was built in the netherlands in 1921 as the ss "brielle. when the ship was sold to the soviet union in 1935, it was registered under the spelling djurma", in accordance with the "protocol of third soviet-american session regarding maritime shipping" dated to the first half of 1974. the ship's name has been most commonly transliterated as "dzhurma" since 1974.