KarLag - Museum of Political Victims’ Memory of the Dolinka Settlement in Karaganda, Kazakhstan
The Karlag Museum occupies all three floors (two above ground plus the basement) of the enormous Dolinka headquarters with no fewer than thirty halls and exhibitions. The museum is a combination of traditional museum practice with the experiential museum so much in vogue today. The first floor features a series of exhibit rooms devoted to topics like the early 1930s famine in Kazakhstan, the political repression of the Kazakh intelligentsia, the foundation of Karlag, the economic activity of Karlag, repressed artists, women and children in Karlag, deportations of peoples to Kazakhstan, repressions of the post-Stalin years, and post-Soviet Kazakhstan as an independent state. These exhibit halls, in what I would call the traditional part of the Karlag Museum, are mostly dominated by a series of glass display cases holding historical photographs, artifacts, and text blocks explaining the history of Soviet repression in general and the Karlag labor camp in particular.
Descending to the basement level, the museum takes a turn toward the experiential. Of course, basements have long held a morbid place in tales of Soviet citizen encounters with the secret police. Basements, like that of the notorious Lubianka in Moscow, were places of imprisonment, torture, and all too often execution. The Karlag Museum pulls out all the stops to capitalize on that mental imagery of the NKVD basement, even though the tour guides admit that they have no particular information that individuals were ever held, interrogated, or tortured in the basement of the Dolinka headquarters.
Like us and Join us at Xtreme Collections for more fun and knowledge.
Best Attractions and Places to See in Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Karaganda Travel Guide. MUST WATCH. Top things you have to do in Karaganda . We have sorted Tourist Attractions in Karaganda for You. Discover Karaganda as per the Traveler Resources given by our Travel Specialists. You will not miss any fun thing to do in Karaganda .
This Video has covered Best Attractions and Things to do in Karaganda .
Don't forget to Subscribe our channel to view more travel videos. Click on Bell ICON to get the notification of updates Immediately.
List of Best Things to do in Karaganda , Kazakhstan
Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Fatima
KarLag / Museum of Political Repression Victims’ Memory of the Dolinka Settlement
Monument Mining Glory
Independence Stele
Regional Central Mosque
Karaganda Regional Museum
Vvedenskiy Cathedral
K. Stanislavskiy Drama Theatre
Central Park of Culture and Rest
Monument to Expression Gde-Gde? V Karagande!
6/7 part_ Archipelag KARLAG_ project by Dr. Prof.N. Dulatbekov_ film by A. Menlibayeva, 2016
Project Archipelago KARLAG by Dr. Prof. Nurlan Dulatbekov, Karaganda.
Film by Almagul Menlibayeva, Archipelago KARLAG (63 min), 2016. Comissioned by private foundation KARLAG-Memory for the future, filmed in Kazakhstan, State Museum of the Political Repression, Dolinka.
Sound by sound artist and composer German Popov