The administration block
With its red star.
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The Museum of Memory of Victims of Political Repression in the village of Dolinka, housed in the former administration building of KarLag, one of the largest forced-labour camps of the Soviet Gulag, which operated from 1930 to 1959 in the steppe of central Kazakhstan. The camp's lands covered some 1.78 million hectares, and more than a million prisoners passed through it, many sentenced as «enemies of the people», later joined by Soviet prisoners of war returned after the Second World War. It was set up to create a farming base with unpaid labour for the industry of the Karaganda coal basin. The museum was founded in 2001 and moved on 31 May 2011 into the camp's own administration building, the white colonnaded block with a red star. Its rooms recreate the administrators' offices and cells and display documents, photographs, prisoners' belongings and personal stories. Entry is by ticket, and a guide who tells the stories is recommended. It is a place of remembrance, so keep quiet; it is about an hour's drive from Karaganda.
With its red star.
Recreated.
And documents.
Dolinka village, about 45 km southwest of Karaganda
One of the largest Soviet Gulag labour camps, run from 1930 to 1959 in central Kazakhstan with over a million prisoners; its museum is in the camp's administration building in Dolinka.