Kengir ( kk, Кеңгір, ''Keñgır'') is a village in central
Kazakhstan
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. During the
Soviet era, a
prison labor camp of
Steplag division of
Gulag
The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the State Political Directorate, GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= ...
in
Kazakhstan
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was set up adjacent to it. The camp, which was situated near the central-Kazakhstan city of
Dzhezkazgan
Jezkazgan, or Zhezkazgan ( kk, Жезқазған, translit=Jezqazğan ), formerly known as Dzhezkazgan (russian: Джезказган) until 1992, is a city and the administrative centre of Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan, on a reservoir of the Kar ...
, near the Kara-Kengir River, and held approximately 5,200
[Formozov, N.A. ''Kengir: 40 days and 50 years''. Memorial’s newspaper “30 October” 2004. #44 p. 4.; State Archive of Russian Federation (SA RF). F. 9414. Op. 1. D. 229. pp. 21, 173, 270; SA RF. F. 9414. Op. 1. D. 285. p. 309] prisoners, was the scene of a notable prisoner uprising in the summer of 1954 (''see''
Kengir uprising). After the camp was closed, a large automotive depot was placed there.
See also
*
Vorkuta uprising
*
List of Gulag camps
Notes
References
*
*Kulchik, Josip, ''Seagulls of Kengir'' ("Chaiki Kingiru", in
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),
Lviv
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, 2000.
Populated places in Karaganda Region
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