Kengir (Kazakh: Кеңгір, Keñgır) is a village in central Kazakhstan. During the Soviet era, a prison labor camp of Steplag division of Gulag in Kazakhstan was set up adjacent to it. The camp, which was situated near the central-Kazakhstan city of Dzhezkazgan, near the Kara-Kengir River, and held approximately 5,200[1] prisoners, was the scene of a notable prisoner uprising in the summer of 1954 (see Kengir uprising). After the camp was closed, a large automotive depot was placed there.

Kengir Кеңгір
village
Kengir Location in Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 47°50′25″N 67°36′55″E
Country	Kazakhstan
Region	Karaganda Region
• Summer (DST)	UTC+6 (UTC+6)

See also

• Vorkuta uprising
• List of Gulag camps

Notes

References

• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1976). The Gulag Archipelago. Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-080396-7.
• Kulchik, Josip, Seagulls of Kengir ("Chaiki Kingiru", in Ukrainian), Lviv, 2000.

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