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Katorga (Russian: ка́торга, romanized:
kátorga, IPA: [ˈkatərɡə] ; from
medieval and
modern Gr****: κάτεργον, romanized: kátergon, lit. 'galley'; and Ottoman...
- Kara
katorga (Russian: Карийская каторга, romanized: Kariyskaya
katorga) was the name for a set of
katorga prisons of
extremely high
security located...
- In the law of the
Soviet Union,
katorga labor was a
severe category of
penal labor. "
Katorga" was a
system of
penal labor in the
Russian Empire, hence...
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Akatuy katorga prison (Russian: Акатуйская каторжная тюрьма,
Akatuyskaya katorzhnaya tyur'ma), part of the
Nerchinsk katorga system of the
Russian Empire...
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begins when an
electromagnetic surge from an
uninhabited island called Katorga-12, once held by the
Soviet Union,
damages an
American spy satellite. A...
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Nerchinsk katorga (Russian: Нерчинская каторга,
Nerchinskaya katorga) was a
system of
katorga — a type of
penal labour —
practiced by the
Russian Empire...
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agency to
administer a
system of
penal labour camps,
replacing the
previous katorga system.
According to semi-official
Soviet estimates,
which did not become...
- work.
According to
historian Anne Applebaum,
katorga was not a
common sentence;
approximately 6,000
katorga convicts were
serving sentences in 1906 and...
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confusion about her full name. Vera
Figner (in her memoirs, At Women's
Katorga),
stated that Kaplan's
original name was
Feiga Khaimovna Roytblat-Kaplan...
- Petersburg.
Trubetskoy was
sentenced to
death but the
sentence was
changed to
katorga for life in
Nerchinsk coal mines. Trubetskoy's wife
Ekaterina Laval (a...
