Akatuy katorga

Akatuy katorga Russian imperial prison in Transbaikalia The Akatuy katorga prison ( Russian: Акатуйская каторжная тюрьма, Akatuyskaya katorzhnaya tyur'ma), part of the Nerchinsk katorga system of the Russian Empire, operated in the present-day Alexandrovo-Zavodsky District of Transbaikalia in the Russian Far East. It originated in 1832[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatuy_katorga#cite_note-1) at the Akatuyskiy mine in the village of New Akatuy\ [ru\] ( Russian: Новый Акатуй). Originally labor convicts (mostly criminal) worked here extracting of lead-silver ores. After the closing of the Kara katorga in 1890, Akatuy became one of the main centers for the detention of political prisoners. It became a women's penal camp in 1911 and finally closed after the February Revolution of 1917. George Kennan "George Kennan (explorer)") visited the remnants of the mine in 1885. He noted: > "Lunin, one of the Decembrist conspirators of 1825, lived and died in penal servitude at this mine, and somewhere in the neighborhood lie buried many of the Polish patriots sent to Akatui after the insurrection of 1863.