Where is Karaganda Located? What Country is Karaganda in? Karaganda Map

Where is Karaganda Located?

Karaganda (today Karagandy) is the Name of a region, and the second largest city of Kazakhstan (420 000 inhabitants). It is considered the center of the Russian Germans living there. However, the number of Russian Germans throughout the country has decreased significantly since 1993 due to increased emigration. In 1989, 143,000 Germans from Russia lived in the city of Karaganda, ten years later only 57,200.

What Country is Karaganda in?

From 1930 to 1959, the territory of Karaganda, in the center of the eponymous city, a gigantic composite of Soviet prison camps, the Karlag (the “Karagandinskij ispravitel’no-trudovoj camp” – karagandi’s education and work camps).

At the time of its peak in 1949, up to 60,000 people were forced to work here under cruel conditions: criminals, political prisoners, former soldiers and officers of the Red Army, who had been imprisoned in Nazi Germany and were punished for it in their own country, and not least members of national minorities such as Russian Germans. Their offense was often simply that they had stolen wheat to save their families from starvation.

With a few exceptions, the indigenous population still living in the Karaganda area had been resettled. The administrative centre of the huge camp complex was the village of Dolinka, where there is now a camp Museum.

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