Kara katorga

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Kara katorga was a notorious tsarist-era Siberian penal labor camp complex used to imprison political dissidents and criminals in the Russian Empire.

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instanceOf penal labor camp complex
tsarist-era prison
associatedWith Siberian exile and forced labor
political repression in the Russian Empire
country Russian Empire
dissolved early 20th century
governmentFormAtTime autocracy of the Russian Empire GENERATED
hasLanguage Russian
hasTypeOfPrisoners criminal offenders
political activists
revolutionaries
historicalEra late Imperial Russia NERFINISHED
inception 19th century
knownFor harsh living conditions
notorious treatment of prisoners
political prisoners
locatedIn Siberia
Transbaikal region NERFINISHED
locatedInPresentDay Zabaykalsky Krai NERFINISHED
locatedOn Kara River NERFINISHED
operatedBy Imperial Russian authorities
partOf Siberian exile system NERFINISHED
tsarist katorga system
penalSystem katorga
regionType remote penal colony
usedFor imprisonment of common criminals
imprisonment of political dissidents
penal labor
workType mining labor
other hard physical labor

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