Kengir

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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 River (also known as the Kengir River), and held approximately 8,000 prisoners, was notable for the prisoner uprising that took place there in the summer of 1954. (see Kengir uprising) After closing the camp, the big automotive depot was placed there.

[edit] See also

• Kengir uprising
• Vorkuta uprising
• List of Gulag camps
• Kengir River

[edit] References

• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1976). The Gulag Archipelago. Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-080396-7. 
• Kulchik, Josip, Seagulls of Kengir ("Chaiki Kingiru", in Ukrainian), Lviv, 2000.