Look up katorga in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Katorga (Russian: ка́торга, IPA: [ˈkatərɡə]; from medieval and modern Greek: κάτεργον, romanized: katergon...

Kara katorga (Russian: Карийская каторга, romanized: Kariyskaya katorga) was the name for a set of katorga prisons of extremely high security located...

Nerchinsk katorga (Russian: Нерчинская каторга, Nerchinskaya katorga) was a system of katorga — a type of penal labour — practiced by the Russian Empire...

Akatuy katorga prison (Russian: Акатуйская каторжная тюрьма, Akatuyskaya katorzhnaya tyur'ma), part of the Nerchinsk katorga system of the Russian Empire...

begins when an electromagnetic surge from an uninhabited island called Katorga-12, once held by the Soviet Union, damages an American spy satellite. A...

internal passport to persons who were given a half-year postponement of katorga or exile for settling personal affairs. The phrase "wolf's certificate"...

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...

Малаксиано) (1862–1889), was a Russian revolutionary, heroine of the Kara katorga tragedy of 1889. Nadezhda Malaxiano was born into a Greek family in the...

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...

work. According to historian Anne Applebaum, katorga was not a common sentence; approximately 6,000 katorga convicts were serving sentences in 1906 and...

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...

were sentenced to death, four other people - to eternal katorga, 6 other - to 4 to 20 years of katorga, and the remaining four - to Siberian exile. v t e...

imprisonment. According to historian Anne Applebaum, katorga was not a common sentence; approximately 6,000 katorga convicts were serving sentences in 1906 and...

prisoners were tortured. In protest, she poisoned herself and died in Kara katorga. Maria Pavlivna Kovalevska (née Vorontsova) was born in August 1849, in...

Penal Servitude (Russian: Каторга, romanized: Katorga) is a 1928 Soviet silent drama film directed by Yuli Raizman. Andrei Zhilinsky as Ilya Berts Pavel...

392 had been injured. The Soviet Union took over the already extensive katorga system and expanded it immensely, eventually organizing the Gulag to run...

arrested again and sentenced to 12 years of katorga. Kotovsky began serving his sentence at Nerchinsk katorga until 1911. He later spent more time in various...

agency to administer a system of penal labour camps, replacing the previous katorga system. According to semi-official Soviet estimates, which did not become...

operated until 1952, such as the notable Devil's Island (Île du Diable). Katorga prisons were harsh work camps established in the 17th century in Russia...

"Glorious Sea, Sacred Baikal" (Славное мope, священный Байкал) is about a katorga fugitive. The lyrics as documented and edited in the 19th century by Dmitriy...

revolutionaries were sent off to Siberia, with hundreds of thousands sent to katorga camps. The retaliation for the revolt made "December Fourteenth" a day...

Archived 16 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine Gentes, Andrew (2005), "Katorga: Penal Labor and Tsarist Siberia" (PDF), in Stolberg, Eva-Maria (ed.),...

postponed due to her pregnancy. Her execution was later replaced with katorga (forced penal labor) for an indefinite period of time; she nevertheless...

part of its regular judicial system, called katorga. The Soviet Union took over the already extensive katorga system and expanded it immensely, eventually...

assassinate a Gendarme. She committed suicide by poisoning in the Kara katorga, in protest against the abuse of imprisoned women by the prison authorities...

to work for Narodnaya Volya, but was rearrested and imprisoned in Kara katorga. There, along with other imprisoned revolutionary women, she committed...

1881. His sentence was later exchanged for eternal katorga. Schedrin was first sent to the Kara katorga, then Alekseyevsky ravelin in 1882, and later Shlisselburg...

horse-drawn carriage, and river steamer to the Russian Far East and the katorga, or penal colony, on Sakhalin Island, north of Japan. He spent three months...

arrested, of which five people would later be sentenced to 10 to 15 years of katorga, other ten to Siberian exile and other three, including Potapov, to a 5-year...

and mining engineer, who worked as an administrator in several of the katorga regimes established in the Trans-Baikal region of the Russian Empire. The...