ALZHIR Soviet time prison private guided tour

Tour distance by car: 70 km

Astana city downtown, Astana suburbs, Malinovka village, monument devoted to the victims of political repressions (35 km from Astana city), lane of Memory, Soviet time prison museum, transfer back to Astana city.

 A very meaningful word ALZHIR makes everyone shiver who knows what it means in fact. Literally in Russian that just means Algeria, but this is neither Africa nor the golden sand dunes, but a cruel jail in the middle of nowhere. ALZHIR is a Russian abbreviation meaning Akmola Prison Camp for the Wives of the Traitors of the Soviet Union.

 There were women imprisoned having a mark "MCTF" meaning a Member of the Country Traitor's Family. None of them ever commited a crime but all of them were imprisoned in this special camp just because they were wifes, mothers, sisters or daughters of those Soviet people who were accused as the traitor of the Soviet Union.
 In the period of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union there was a chapter 58 in the criminal law and according to it all Soviet people were liable for their relatives or friends and that's the reason how 8000 of innocent women were imprisoned for years in the cruel ALZHIR.

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