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 the camp was closed, a big automotive depot was placed there.
==See also==
*[[Kengir uprising]]
*[[Vorkuta uprising]]
*[[List of Gulag camps]]
*[[Kengir River]]
==References==
*{{cite book |
author=Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr |
title=[[The Gulag Archipelago]] |
id=ISBN 0-06-080396-7 |
publisher=Harper & Row |
year=1976 }}
*Kulchik, Josip, ''Seagulls of Kengir'' ("Chaiki Kingiru", in [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]), [[Lviv]], 2000.
[[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]
[[Category:Gulag]]
[[Category:History of Kazakhstan]]
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