ALZhIR

51.078220°N 70.971676°E / 51.078220; 70.971676

Memorial on the site of the ALZhIR

ALZhIR, the Akmolinsk Camp of Wives of Traitors to the Motherland (Russian: Акмолинский лагерь жён изменников Родины, АЛЖИР, romanized: Akmolinskiy lager' zhon izmennikov Rodiny, ALZhIR), was a labor camp of the Gulag in the Akmola Region of Kazakhstan. It was instituted by the Soviet Union to jail the ChSIR: members of the families of traitors to the Motherland after NKVD Order 00486 of 15 August 1937. Over 18,000 women were imprisoned at the camp during its existence, and about 8,000 women served a full sentence there. Today, the camp houses a museum-memorial complex of victims of political repression and totalitarianism, which opened on 31 May 2007 as part of an initiative of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.[1] After the closure of the prisons in 1953, it was reported that 1,507 of the women gave birth as a result of being raped by the guards.[2]

References
  1. "ALZHIR – A Place of Remembrance". 31 January 2020.
  2. Lills, Joanna; Trilling, David (6 August 2009). "The forgotten women of the Gulag". Eurasianet. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.

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