Karlag

Karlag (Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, Russian: Карагандинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь, Карлаг) was one of the largest Gulag labor camps, located in Karaganda Oblast (now Karaganda Region), Kazakh SSR, USSR. [1] About 800,000 inmates served in total in Karlag over its history.[2]

Notable inmates

References

  1. ↑ "Karlag", a website to preserve information about Karlag and its inmates
  2. ↑ "Names", a page of the Karlag website

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