One of these places is the setting of the second part of the memoir Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg.
One of these places is the setting of the second part of the memoir Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg. People in one of these places tried to get help using carrier pigeons after seizing control of it during the forty-day Kengir uprising. The use of these places replaced the katorga system, which was used for targets of the Third Section and the Okhrana. Under Genrikh Yagoda, tens of thousands of people from these places constructed a 141-mile-long shipping canal. These places were (*) operated by the NKVD. Many people were released from these places during the Thaw that followed the Secret Speech. These places are compared to a vast archipelago by an Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book. For 10 points, name this system of forced labor prison camps in Soviet Russia.
One of these places is the setting of the second part of the memoir Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg.
Gulag prison camps [or Glavnoye upravlenie lagerei; or Main Camp Administration; prompt on more general answers such as labor camps, Soviet prison camps, etc]