Steplag or Stepnoy Camp Directorate, Special Camp No. 4 (Степлаг (Степной лагерь), Особлаг (Особый лагерь) № 4) was an MVD special camp for political...
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anti-state agitation and propaganda, and sentenced to ten years labour at Steplag. Beria picked her up under the pretense of bringing her to perform for...
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central Kazakhstan. During the Soviet era, a prison labor camp of the Steplag division of Gulag in Kazakhstan was set up adjacent to it. The camp, which...
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The Kengir uprising was a prisoner rebellion that occurred in Kengir (Steplag), a Soviet MVD special camp for political prisoners, during May and June...
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parts of the Soviet Union, mainly in the steppes of Kazakhstan (Luglag, Steplag, Peschanlag). A detailed map was made by the Memorial Foundation. These...
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Dolgun was finally given a 25-year sentence in the Gulag. He ended up in Steplag at Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, where he labored for several months until being...
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starting July 19 Vorkuta 42 Kengir uprising 1954, May 6 – June 26 Kengir, Steplag, Kazakh SSR 500–700 Novocherkassk massacre 1962, June 1 – 2 Novocherkassk...
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renamed Lower Volga ITL in 1942) Staroselskoe LO (Starosellag) Stepnoy Camp (Steplag, MVD Special Camp No. 4, Stepnoy ITL) Stepnovskoe LO Sukhodolskoye LO (Sukhodolsky...
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the 1920s. During the rule of Joseph Stalin, a prison labour camp of the Steplag division of the Gulag was set up adjacent to the village of Kengir, near...
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Gorny Горный (Gorlag), Dubravny Дубравный (Dubravlag), Stepnoy Степной (Steplag) and Beregovoy Береговой (Berlag). Russian political prisoner and writer...
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Maria Kapnist (category Steplag detainees)
from Steplag and sent to Kazachin village in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In 1950, she gave birth to a daughter Radislava in the prison hospital Steplag in...
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Ioann Bodnarchuk (category Steplag detainees)
Tyumen labor camp and later in the Kengir copper mines near Karaganda (Steplag). His family also was deported to Kazakhstan, where they lived until 1954...
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for his Libel against the Red Army to seven years in Gulag (served in Steplag). The formal reason for his arrest was his February 1945 report about the...
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