Stalinist Repression in the Soviet Union and the history of the Akmola women's camp in Kazakhstan (1937-1953)

Issue 55, 2024

Kanat Yensenov, Ganiy Karassayev, Bekmurat Naimanbayev, Zhanat Bakirova, Gulfira Otepova

Received 08.10.2023, Revised 21.01.2024, Accepted 07.03.2024

https://doi.org/10.54919/physics/55.2024.53nd7

Abstract

Relevance. During the Soviet Union, the administrative and command group headed by I.V. Stalin established a totalitarian regime in society. The whole life of society was under control. Those who resisted were repressed, persecuted, imprisoned, and sentenced to death. In addition, Soviet Union created the Gulag system of camps. Some of them were located on the territory of Kazakhstan. The center was Karlag, located on the territory of Karaganda region.

Purpose. One of its units was called the women's camp of traitors who sold their homeland in Akmola (ALJIR), which was called Point 26. This camp operated from 1937 to 1953. Thousands of innocent women were imprisoned there for a period of 3-8 years. In this camp, women of state and public figures known to the Soviet Union and well-known to Kazakhstan were detained. It was one of the most tragic pages in the history of mankind.

Methodology. This topic has not been fully studied yet. Therefore, the authors consider it appropriate to provide information in the article on the basis of archival documents, memoirs and scientific research about the women's camp, which was previously located on the territory of Akmola region in Kazakhstan. In order to study the history of these repressions, it is necessary to take a comprehensive approach from a theoretical and methodological point of view.

Conclusions. The history of the Akmola women's camp in Kazakhstan is a terrible period in the history of the world. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare joint scientific projects, write research papers and translate them into several languages of the world, make documentaries, show them to the people of the world, and present them.

Keywords: Gulag; Karlag; prison; totalitarianism; enemies of people

Suggested citation

Yensenov K, Karassayev G, Naimanbayev B, Bakirova Z, Otepova G. Stalinist Repression in the Soviet Union and the history of the Akmola women's camp in Kazakhstan (1937-1953). Sci Herald Uzhhorod Univ Ser Phys. 2024;(55):537-544. DOI: 10.54919/physics/55.2024.53nd7

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