corrective-labor system
21Anton Makarenko — Anton Semenovych Makarenko Born Антон Семенович Макаренко January 13, 1888(1888 01 13) Bilopillia, Russian Empire Died April 1, 1939( …
22NKVD Order No. 00486 — The NKVD Order № 00486 [(full name: Operational Order of People s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR by August 15, 1937 # 00486 ) ] instructed about repression of wives of enemy of the people also known as traitors of the Motherland,… …
23Order about Family Members of Traitors of the Motherland — The NKVD Order № 00486 [1] instructed about repression of wives and children of enemy of the people also known as traitors of the Motherland, members of Right Trotskyist spying terrorist organizations convicted by first and second category since… …
24gulag — noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Russian, from Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel notrudovykh lagereĭ chief administration of corrective labor camps Date: 1974 the penal system of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consisting of a network …
25gulag — gu•lag [[t]ˈgu lɑg[/t]] n. (sometimes cap.) 1) mil gov the system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union 2) mil gov a Soviet forced labor camp 3) mil gov any prison or detention camp, esp. for political prisoners • Etymology: 1970–75; <… …
26gulag — [go͞o′läg΄, go͞o′lag΄] n. [< Russ acronym for G(lavnoe) u(pravlenie ispravitel no trudovykh) lag(erei), Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps: term popularized by The Gulag Archipelago by A. SOLZHENITSYN Aleksandr (Isayevich)] 1.… …
27Volga-Don Canal — Lenin Volga Don Shipping Canal ( ru. Волго Донской судоходный канал имени В. И. Ленина, abbreviated ВДСК, VDSK ) is a canal which connects the Volga River and the Don River at their closest points. The length of the waterway is 101 km (45 km… …
28gulag — system of prisons and labor camps, especially for political detainees, in the former Soviet Union; rough acronym from Rus. Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel no trudovykh lagerei Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps, set up in 1931 …
29Solovki prison camp — The Solovki prison camp and later Solovki prison (located on the Solovetsky Islands, White Sea) was part of the Soviet penal system. Historically Solovetsky Islands have been the location of the famous Russian Orthodox Solovetsky Monastery… …
30Yevgenia Ginzburg — (November 20, 1904 [Moscow] May 25, 1977) (Russian language: Евгения Соломонова Гинзбург) [A. L. Litvin (comp.) Dva sledstvennykh dela Evgenii Ginzburg (Kazanʹ: Knizhnyĭ Dom: Taves, 1994), p. 23.] was a Russian author who did time in the Gulag.… …
