Karlag
From Kazakhstan Encyclopedia
Karlag (Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, Russian: Карагандинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь, Карлаг) was one of the largest Gulag labor camps, located in Karaganda Oblast (now Karaganda Region), Kazakh SSR, USSR. <ref>"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>"Names", a page of the Karlag website</ref>
Notable inmates
- Arkadiy Belinkov (1921–1970), writer
- Nikolay Urvantsev (1893–1985), geologist and explorer