Sharashka
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In the Soviet Union, a sharashka was a type of secret research and development laboratory operating from the 1920s to the 1950s within the Gulag labor camp system, as well as in other facilities under
Tupolev's sharashka TsKB-29 of NKVD in Omsk (1943)
Gulag
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The Gulag was a system of labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from
Sharashka
…шара́шка, ; sometimes sharaga, sharazhka) was a type of secret research and development laboratory operating from the 1920s to the 1950s within the Gulag labor camp system, as well as in other facilities under the supervision of the Soviet secret service. Formally various secret R&D facilities were called…
A punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, 1945
Genrikh Yagoda (middle) inspecting the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal, 1935. Behind his right shoulder is Nikita Khrushchev.
The fence at the old Gulag camp in Perm-36, founded in 1943, turned into a museum.
Central shop in Norilsk built by prisoners of the Norillag