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'''Karlag''' ('''Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp''', Russian: Карагандинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь, Карлаг) was one of the largest [[Gulag]] [[labor camp]]s, located in [[Karaganda]] Oblast (now [[Karaganda Region]]), [[Kazakh SSR]], [[USSR]]. <ref>[http://www.karlag.kz/ "Karlag"], a website to preserve information about Karlag and its inmates</ref> About 800,000 inmates served in total in Karlag over its history.<ref>[http://www.karlag.kz/art.php?rid=7 "Names"], a page of the Karlag website</ref>

==Notable inmates==
*[[Arkadiy Belinkov]] (1921–1970), writer
*[[Nikolay Urvantsev]] (1893–1985), geologist and explorer

==References==
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[[Category:Camps of the Gulag]]
[[Category:Karaganda Region]]