KARLAG GULAG

Karlag is the simple pcie's simple abbreviation. Built under Stalin in the village of Dolinka, about 50 km southwest of Karaganda, the work camp covered no less than 60 000 km ², space divided in reality into a multitude of camps, only a tiny part of which is now visited by the army. The prisoners were mainly used for the operation of coal mines. After independence, the buildings were transformed into a museum and allowed for a few steps in the nervous world of Soviet concentration camps. The first building, which housed the administrative services of the camp, is the only one to take a look at its neoclassical Russian architecture. The others are especially interesting for what they contain. The route leads us wide corridors lined with narrow cells in interrogation chambers, passing through the halls where prisoners were protected from watching. Archival and mannequins documents illustrate life in the gulag through a completely refaite value in 2011, which ranks this most interesting museum in the country.

On the other side of Karaganda you can stop in the village of Spassk. A memorial was erected where more than 5 000 victims of the Karlag camp are buried.