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Karlag was one of thousand prison camps called GULAG (or Main Department of Prison Camps. Organized during the time of mass political repressions in the Soviet Union in 1930's, the Administrative center of Karlag was located in Dolinka Village (50 km to south-west of today’s Karaganda city).

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Karlag was one of the thousand prison camps called GULAG (or Main Department of Prison Camps). Organized during the time of mass political repressions in the Soviet Union in 1930's, The Administrative center of Karlag was located in the Dolinka Village (50 kms to the south-west of today’s Karaganda city).

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After the Second World War Stalin’s Prison Camps were completely filled with foreign war captives (Japanese, Romanian, German, Hungarian, Moldavian, Lithuanian and many others). Captives of war were, mainly, kept in Spassky Prison Camp in Peschany (45 kms to the south of Karaganda city) and it became Karlag’s “Brotherly (Common) Grave”.

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One of the rare deposits of unique stone aschirite-dioptase is located approximately 120 kms to the east of Karaganda. This mineral has such purity and deepness that only an expert can differentiate it from emerald.

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Aksoran is the highest peak of the Kyzylarai mountains and Kazakh Upland (Sary-Arka) on the whole. It is 1565 meters tall. The panorama surrounding the mountainous oasis of steppe which opens from the peak is best viewed from about a 600 meter ascent.

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Shabanbai-Bi Village, situated at the foot of Aksoran, the highest peak of the Kyzylarai mountains, is one of the places in the Central Kazakhstan where ecotourism is developed based on the local community. Tourists are encouraged to lodge in the houses of local inhabitants as an incomparable way of getting acquainted with the simple way of village life; and to sample the traditional Kazakh cuisine such as besbarmak, kuyrdak, pilau (plov) and more.

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