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ALZHIR camp

Akmola camp of the wives of traitors to the motherland: a women's camp of the Karlag in Kazakhstan, opened in 1937-38.

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ALZHIR - A Place of Remembrance, Voices on Central Asia. Scholarship & press
The name “ALZHIR” – “Akmola camp of the wives of traitors to the motherland” – was actually coined by the prisoners themselves, while the official name was the Akmola special unit of the Karaganda camp system of the NKVD.
In December 1937, in a village near today’s Nursultan (Astana), a small camp consisting of several clay huts, four towers, and barbed wire had been built and the first group of women—with children from one to three years old—arrived in Akmolinsk on January 6, 1938.
Situated in the center of Kazakhstan, ALZHIR
Over 18,000 women were sent here in various years, and approximately 8,000 women served a full sentence at ALZHIR.
The largest women's camp (ALZHIR), Qazaqstan tarihy (e-history.kz). Scholarship & press
The museum is located on the territory of the present village of Akmol - on the site of the former 26 point of labor, where the Akmola special division of the Karlag NKVD was established, which later became known as the “Akmola Camp of wives of traitors to the Motherland” (ALZHIR).
It was here that in 1937 a camp was opened for the wives of the enemies of the people, to which innocent women from all over the Soviet Union were brought.
According to the decree of the NKVD, more than 18 thousand women were arrested, of which about 8 thousand women were here in ALZHIR.

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