Karlag
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How to send mail, money, and visit Karlag
Step-by-step guidance using the Kazakhstan system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
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Photo by Muzaffar Turgunov via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
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Background
Karlag (Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, Russian: Карагандинский исправительно-трудовой лагерь, Карлаг) was one of the largest Gulag labor camps, located in Karaganda Oblast (now Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan), Kazakh SSR, USSR. It operated during 1930—1959.
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1930
Closed 1959
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1930
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.