Gulag: The Forced Labour Camps of the USSR

The Stalinist era Gulags of Kazakhstan are now memorialised by museums and monuments.

Gulag: The Forced Labour Camps of the USSR

ALZhIR, the Akmolinsk Camp of Wives of Traitors to the Motherland was a labour camp of the Gulag in the Akmola Region of Soviet Kazakhstan.

KarLag or the Karaganda Corrective Labour Camp was one of the largest Gulag labour camps in the USSR. It was located in Karaganda Oblast in the Kazakh SSR, now the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan.

Spassk was the site of a KarLag camp where foreign prisoners of war were kept after WWII. Beside the highway is the mass grave of around 5000 prisoners.

The central monument at ALZhIR The Museum of the Camp for the Wives of the Traitors to the Motherland, a Stalin era GULAG for the wives of traitors to the USSR.
A statue of man representing despair at ALZhIR The Museum of the Camp for the Wives of the Traitors to the Motherland, a Stalin era GULAG for the wives of traitors to the USSR.
A wall of names of the victims of ALZhIR
Hammer and Sickle at the KarLag Museum
A statue of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky at the KarLag Museum. Dzerzhinksy was the leader of the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU. The Soviet FED rangfinder camera was named after him.
Vladimir Lenin at the KarLag Museum.
Spassk memorial to victims of repression near Balkhash, Kazakhstan on the site of a KarLag camp.
Spassk memorial to victims of repression near Balkhash, Kazakhstan on the site of a KarLag camp.
Spassk memorial to victims of repression near Balkhash, Kazakhstan on the site of a KarLag camp.
Spassk memorial to victims of repression near Balkhash, Kazakhstan on the site of a KarLag camp.
Spassk memorial to victims of repression near Balkhash, Kazakhstan on the site of a KarLag camp.
KarLag Memorial Museum
KarLag Memorial Museum
KarLag Memorial Museum
KarLag Memorial Museum
KarLag Memorial Museum
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