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Karlag labour camp (1931–59)

On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Karlag”

1931–1959 — From its headquarters at Dolinka, the Karaganda camp directed farms and work sites across the central Kazakh steppe. The camp’s prisoners and the deported peasants living around it supplied labor for the Karaganda coal basin.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Gulag forced-labour camps (chapter 5 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
Atlas
The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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Map showing Karlag labour camp (1931–59), site of memory in The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
SITE OF MEMORY · THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN, 1924–1953

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