Karlag
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Karlag (Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, Russian: Карагандинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь, Карлаг) was one of the largest Gulag labor camps, located in Karaganda Oblast (now Karagandy Province), Kazakh SSR, USSR. [1] About 800,000 inmates served in total in Karlag over its history.[2]
Notable inmates [edit]
- Arkadiy Belinkov (1921–1970), writer
- Nikolay Urvantsev (1893–1985), geologist and explorer
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