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<div>'''Kengir''' is a village in central [[Kazakhstan]]. During the [[Soviet era]], a [[prison labor]] camp of [[Steplag]] division of [[Gulag]] in [[Kazakhstan]] was set up adjacent to it. The camp, which was situated near the central-Kazakhstan city of [[Dzhezkazgan]], near the Kara-Kengir River, and held approximately 5,200<ref>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</ref> 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.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Vorkuta uprising]]<br />
*[[List of Gulag camps]]<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{cite book|author=Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr|title=[[The Gulag Archipelago]]|isbn=0-06-080396-7|publisher=Harper & Row|year=1976}}<br />
*Kulchik, Josip, ''Seagulls of Kengir'' ("Chaiki Kingiru", in [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]), [[Lviv]], 2000.<br />
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