Translation for 'Gulag' from English to Russian

Gulag [also: gulag]

ГУЛАГ {м} [главное управление лагерей]ист.

• Due both to the forcible nature of these "resettlements" and to the severe conditions of the resettlement regions, these locales have sometimes been characterized as "being arrested and sent to the gulag" (see Gulag#During World War II").
• In September 2009, the Education Ministry of Russia announced that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago", a book once banned in the Soviet Union for the detailed account on the system of prison camps, became required reading for Russian high-school students.
• He was later imprisoned in Gulag labor camps in Vorkuta where he worked as a brigadier of miners.
• Despite these guarantees, the Soviets arrested some 5000 Polish soldiers who were sent to "Miedniki" gulag.
• The United States-based Uyghur Human Rights Project has described Xinjiang as a "cotton gulag".

• The town expanded in the 1940s and 1950s by use of political prisoners' forced labor (see: gulag).
• Udy has made a long-term study of the history of the gulag camps of Norilsk, his collection of photographs of which is in the Hoover Institution Archives.
• It was built in 1949 as a gulag to house the prisoners constructing the Salekhard–Igarka Railway.
• Around 1940 a prison camp of the gulag system was located in the town.
• Anne Applebaum wrote that Volovich stands out in the anthology "Gulag Voices", as she, like Elena Glinka, was not afraid to touch upon taboo subjects Volovich's story about her own child in the camp contrasts to some stereotypes about the selfishness and venality of gulag prisoners who bore children there.

• He said the reform package is a "Soviet-style gulag health care", and will make American healthcare something akin to that available to the prisoners of Russian gulag.
• In July 1941 he was sentenced to death by the Soviet authorities, although the sentence was later commuted to ten years in the Gulag.
• The film is loosely based on "The Long Walk" (1956), Sławomir Rawicz's memoir depicting his alleged escape from a Siberian Gulag and subsequent 4,000-mile walk to freedom in India.
• During the Stalin era, and especially after World War II many Ukrainians were sent to Gulag; some of them were former participants of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
• The Gulag [...] , [...]; [...]. was the government agency in charge of the Soviet network of forced labour camps which were set up by order of Vladimir Lenin, reaching its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s.